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DESCRIPTION:The first narrative film to challenge the official story about 9/11.  Film 
 makers will be at the screening...\n\nThe Reflecting Pool follows an 
 investigation by a skeptical Russian-American journalist who teams up with 
 the father of a 9/11 victim to fact check the official version of the 
 tragedy as documented in the 9/11 Commission Report. As they examine 
 evidence and interview key eyewitnesses, the official story begins to 
 crumble. The Reflecting Pool is the first investigative drama to present 
 this issue in the spirit of such films as All the President's Men and JFK. 
 \n\nThe film illustrates that, as so often is the case, the truth does not 
 set you free; it ties your stomach and conscience into knots. It will 
 remind you of All the President's Men and JFK, films that also used drama 
 to pursue political truths. \n\nWriter/Director Jarek Kupsc plays Alex 
 Prokop, a successful journalist who receives a mysterious 9/11 videotape 
 revealing new information on the attack. Joseph Culp appears as Paul 
 Cooper, the man who sent the tape and a driven researcher whose daughter 
 died on 9/11. Though skeptical of conspiracy theorists and fearful that it 
 will jeopardize his career, Prokop agrees to take on the story. \n\nWe 
 follow Prokop and Cooper as they investigate the destruction of evidence 
 from Ground Zero, the collapse of the 47-story WTC Building Seven, and the 
 airliner attack on the Pentagon. The results of their investigation suggest 
 the official version as presented in the 9/11 Commission Report purposely 
 ignored or omitted evidence and testimonies to protect people in political 
 positions, including the present administration. Prokop, plagued by the 
 ghosts of his Communist childhood and trying to uphold the independence of 
 American journalism, struggles to come to grips with this awful truth. 
 \n\nThe Reflecting Pool is an intense, sobering analysis of the most 
 controversial tragedy of our time -- a thought-provoking study of a search 
 for truth and the profound consequences of not looking for it any further 
 than the nightly news. \n\nSelected reviews\n\n"The Reflecting Pool 
 presents a story that I have not taken the time or courage to 
 touch."\n--Barbara Trent, Academy Award Winner, The Panama Deception 
 \n\n"The film illustrates that, as so often is the case, the truth does not 
 set you free; it ties your stomach and conscience into knots. It will 
 remind you of All the President's Men and JFK, films that also used drama 
 to pursue political truths."\n--Joel Hirschhorn, Op-ed news \n\n"The script 
 is top-notch, the characterizations moving. If the film has a flaw, it's in 
 trying to document so much evidence in a narrative thriller. Yet by and 
 large, it pulls it off to deliver a chilling and effective message -- maybe 
 it can happen here."\n--Jim Cirile, Screenwriters Magazine \n\nAbout The 
 Reflecting Pool:\n\nThe Reflecting Pool premiered theatrically through 
 American Cinematheque to a standing-room only audience on January 31, 2008, 
 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, CA. The film screened in limited runs 
 in February and March in Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, and continues with 
 other selected screenings. The film is an official selection this summer at 
 the Maine International Film Festival in July and the Moondance 
 International Film Festival in August. The film was recently picked up by 
 Rialto Theaters in New Zealand for this September. \n\nAbout the 
 filmmakers:\n\nThe Reflecting Pool was independently produced and financed 
 by Baltazar Works with Jodie Baltazar and Joseph Culp serving as producers. 
 The Reflecting Pool is director Jarek Kupsc's third feature film. He won 
 multiple awards for his debut feature Recoil and won Best Picture for 
 Slumberland in his native Poland. Kupsc gives his view: "Most of all we 
 wanted to tell a human story about what happens to people when the truth is 
 kept from them and show the struggle one must go through for their own 
 sense of integrity." He continues, "September 11th, 2001, was a defining 
 moment in modern history--an event that propelled America toward preemptive 
 wars under false pretenses resulting in the deaths of over a million 
 civilians in the Middle East, thousands of American troops, and a complete 
 disregard for the Geneva Conventions not to mention the Bill of Rights." 
 Culp says, The Reflecting Pool is a way of taking stock of what has 
 happened to our country after 9/11 and to do the most American thing of 
 all--ask questions and demand honest answers." \n\n(A preview version of 
 this film was shown at last year's 9/11 Film Festival at the Grand Lake 
 Theater, feedback from local researchers was incorporated into the final 
 cut, which was released in January 2008.)\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/02/18522205.php
SUMMARY:Premiere- The Reflecting Pool
LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive\n2575 Bancroft Way\nBerkeley, CA\n
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