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UNA PELÍCULA DE LA MISIÓN: MISSION MOVIE
LAUNCHES INTO THE FILM FESTIVAL CIRCUIT AT THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL LATINO FILM FESTIVAL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Stephanie Lim– 415.533.8085
steph3280@hotmail.com

San Francisco July 7, 2004

Mission Movie, the new independent feature film set in San Francisco’s Mission District, will follow its wildly successful one-night local debut with its’ North American Premier at the New York International Latino Film Festival July 31ST at 1:00 p.m. and August 1ST at noon.

Directed by award-winning Bay Area filmmaker Lise Swenson, Mission Movie played to an enthusiastic crowd of over 2,000 at a community screening June 4. The film’s focus on the Mission District, a predominantly Latino neighborhood, made it a prime candidate to be one of five domestic feature films selected for the festival.

Mission Move is a passionate and soulful urban drama that tells five intersecting stories that take place over one summer in the Mission District of San Francisco. Based on true-life stories, the cast is led by veteran Columbian actor Diego Vasquez and includes many Bay Area actors, including cameos by well-known artists and activists. In true form to the Mission District, the bilingual film features both Spanish and English subtitles.

The New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) is a premiere film festival presenting the works of Latino artists and people of Latin American descent. The festival braids together Latinos in Hollywood and the independent film industry, along with aficionados and students of film and the arts. For more information, visit www.nylatinofilm.com.

More about Mission Movie:
The concept for the film was born when Director Lise Swenson gathered a group of San Francisco artists and media makers and real-life stories of the Mission District. Swenson is an award-winning filmmaker who has been deeply involved with media arts in the Bay Area since the early 1980s. In 1999 she received the San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award for outstanding achievement in film and video. She also received a prestigious Creative Work Fund grant to collaborate with Southern Exposure in the development phase of the project, which led to the creation of the feature-length film.

The Mission District: 74,633 Residents, 196 Nationalities, 2 Square Miles, One Movie