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Sundance Institute and Hammer Museum to Present FREE Work-in-Progress

Written by: FFT Webmaster | March 15th, 2011

Sundance Institute and Hammer Museum to Present Free Work-in-Progress
Screening of Semper Fi: Always Faithful

Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 7 PM at the Hammer Museum

Free Screening of Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon Documentary
about a Marine Corps Cover-up of One of the Largest Water
Contamination Incidents in U.S. History

Los Angeles, CA – Sundance Institute will present a free Work-In-Progress
Screeningof Semper Fi: Always Faithful on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at
the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The documentary film by Rachel Libert
and Tony Hardmon about a devoted Marine and father who discovers a Marine
Corps cover-up of one of the largest water contamination incidents in U.S.
history, issupported with funding and resources by the Institute’s
Documentary Film Program.

SEMPER FI: ALWAYS FAITHFUL
Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger was a devoted Marine for nearly
twenty-five years. As a drill instructor he lived and breathed the “Corps”
and indoctrinated thousands of new recruits. When Jerry’s nine year-old
daughter dies of a rare type of leukemia his world is upended. As a
grief-stricken father he struggles to make sense of what happened. In his
search for answers he discovers a Marine Corps cover-up of one of the
largest water contamination incidents in U.S. history.

Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Work-In-Progress Screenings are
interactive events that reveal the anatomy of a documentary in the making.
Work-In-Progress Screenings at the Hammer Museum provide a rare
behind-the-scenes glimpse into the creative process, a chance to meet the
remarkable people the film follows, and the opportunity to engage in
conversation with thought leaders on the ideas and concerns the film
broaches.

FREE Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Work-In-Progress Screening
SEMPER FI: ALWAYS FAITHFUL
March 24, 2011
7:00PM
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd at Westwood (
Los Angeles, CA 90024;
Phone: 310.443.7000)

The Program is free and open to the public. Tickets are required, and are
available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start
time. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required. Parking is available
under the museum for $3 after 6:00 p.m. Press should RSVP to
amy_mcgee@sundance.org for limited reserved seating.

The Sundance Documentary Film Program, a core program of Sundance
Institute, supports U.S. and international feature documentary films that
focus on pressing contemporary social issues of global relevance. Films
supported by the DFP have included My Country, My Country; Iraq in
Fragments; Why We Fight; The Inner Tour; The Betrayal
(Nerakhoun); Traces of the Trade
and Trouble the Water.

Sundance Institute
Sundance Institute is a global nonprofit organization founded by Robert
Redford in 1981. Through its artistic development programs for directors,
screenwriters, producers, composers and playwrights, the Institute seeks to
discover and support independent film and theatre artists from the United
States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work.
The Institute promotes independent storytelling to inform, inspire, and
unite diverse populations around the globe. Internationally recognized for
its annual Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute has nurtured such
projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Son of Babylon, Amreeka,
An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Light in the Piazza
and
Angels in America. www.sundance.org.

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