SOL PRODUCTIONS ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF NEW DOCUMENTARY
Sol Productions is proud to announce the release of our latest feature-length documentary film, Moving Pictures, due to premiere in July of 2010. We returned to Caracas this spring, nearly four years after filming ¿Puedo Hablar? / May I Speak?, our popular first documentary on the Venezuelan Presidential Elections of 2006. In Moving Pictures, we journey once again to each corner of Venezuela, from the crowded capital city to the Amazon and the Andes, reconnecting with various characters from our first film. We discover the trajectory of their lives in the four years since Hugo Chavez's re-election, and we contemplate what their stories mean for the legacy of Chavez's rise to power.

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Sol Productions is a documentary film production studio based in Washington, DC. Sol has produced three highly-acclaimed documentary films on four continents, covering elections in Venezuela, Senegal, and France. Our work has appeared in major film festivals around the world, including the Montreal World Film Festival, the Boston International Film Festival, and the Sarasota International Film Festival. Our three films, ¿Puedo Hablar? / May I Speak?, Democracy in Dakar, and Democracy in Paris have enjoyed both popular backing and the embrace of the academic world.

Democracy in Dakar chronicles the role of hip-hop musicians in Senegalese national politics. It has been the subject of a special panel discussion at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, and in January of 2009 the Smithsonian screened the film at the National Museum of African Art during official celebration of Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration. It was also screened as part of United Nations Week in New York, and received the "Media that Matters" award from Al Gore's Current TV. The film has also been discussed in special screenings at Harvard, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins, among many other universities.

¿Puedo Hablar? / May I Speak? examines contemporary Venezuelan politics through the lens of the 2006 presidential elections. The film has been fodder for debate and dialogue on campuses all over Europe and the United States, screening at both Cambridge University and to a full house at Harvard University's Rockefeller Center in an event co-organized by the Kennedy School of Government. Critically acclaimed by both Chavez sympathizers and opponents, it was also the subject of a special panel discussion at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway. The film has been reviewed by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) and Teaching Sociology, and has screened at over eighty-five colleges and universities throughout forty-four U.S. states and seven countries.

In all, our films have been screened at over one hundred and twenty colleges and universities around the globe and at film festivals in more than fifteen countries--from Sweden and Italy to Uganda and Japan.

Discover more about Sol Productions here, or write us at:

Chris@Sol-Productions.org
Magee@Sol-Productions.org
Mo@Sol-Productions.org

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Sol Productions
1329 10th St. NW, Washington, DC 20001
(603) 573-5556
chris@sol-productions.org

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Sol Productions
1329 10th St. NW, Washington, DC 20001
(603) 573-5556

Sol Productions operates in two principal capacities. As a registered S-Corporation, Sol Productions in Venezuela, Inc., we produced and published ¿Puedo Hablar? in 2007. Under the non-profit Sol Productions Foundation we own and operate the Democracy in Dakar and Democracy in Paris series.