They Killed Sister Dorothy

Product Description {Winner - Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award - SXSW Film Festival} {Winner - Best of Festival, Best Feature Documentary, Audience Award - Woods Hole Film Festival} {Winner - Silver Hugo- Chicago International Film Festival} {Winner - Audience Award - Denver Film Festival} {Top Ten Audience Favorite - Seattle International Film Festival} *Premiered on HBO *Original Song Written & Performed by Grammy-nominated Brazilian singer/songwriter BEBEL GILBERTO *Narrated by MARTIN SHEEN At the mouth of the Amazon River, a murder trial is taking place. The victim - Sister Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old Catholic nun from Dayton, Ohio - was shot six times at point blank range. The events that led to her death, and the trials that follow, reveal the larger battle being fought for the future of the rainforest. Filmmakers Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher gained unprecedented access to both sides of the conflict and to the courtroom. Produced by Academy Award winner Nigel Nobel and narrated by Martin Sheen, this gripping documentary follows the real-life drama at the trials of Dorothy's killers, while exploring the conflicts in the Amazon that led to that fateful day. Review Riveting, vivid stuff... remarkable courtroom footage. So captivating it's almost hard to believe. --The Hollywood Reporter Impresses and enthralls, balancing moral outrage and courtroom melodrama in a documentary filled with the sort of colorful characters one usually encounters only in fictional crime stories. --Joe Leydon, Variety A riveting courtroom drama set against the combustible backdrop of the decimated rain forest, with a dramatic courtroom turnabout that blows everything that's come before out of the water. --Austin Chronicle