Hollywood, CA -- Ben Barbosa, CEO of BB Entertainment Marketing recently announced the company’s acquisition of all North American rights to Innocent Voices from Lawrence Bender Productions and Altavista Films. Marty Zeidman’s Slowhand Cinema Releasing has finalized negotiations with BB Entertainment to distribute the film. BB Entertainment has awarded creative and advertising to Terry Hines and Associates."
Innocent Voices will be released in New York, Los Angeles and major markets nationwide on September 23, 2005. Innocent Voices recently won the Golden Space Needle Award as Best Film at the 2005 Seattle International Film Festival.
Lawrence Bender Productions is well-known for producing critically acclaimed films such as Good Will Hunting, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2 and Pulp Fiction. “I made Innocent Voices because this coming-of-age story--about a boy and his mother’s struggle to protect her children in the middle of a civil war--made me reflect on the decisions we adults make that affect the lives of our children in the world,” said Bender. I’m thrilled that BB Entertainment has the passion and conviction to release it.”
Director by Luis Mandoki’s (Angel Eyes, Message In A Bottle) Innocent Voices follows the life of 11-year-old Chava (newcomer Carlos Padilla) as he comes of age in El Salvador during the 1980s civil war, has been hailed at international film festivals for its unflinching portrayal of the controversial war and its stark view of the use of child soldiers.
The film has unusual resonance for screenwriter Oscar Torres (El Matadero, Hired Help), who co-wrote the film with Mandoki and based the screenplay on his own childhood. According to materials released in connection with the film, Torres managed to avoid several military roundups as a child before finally enlisting with the FMLN
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