The Letter

Written and Directed by Ziad H. Hamzeh, Executive Producer Paul F. Harron Jr.,
Produced by Ziad H. Hamzeh, Bert Brown, and Marc Sandler

• Wins Best Documentary at The 2004 Boston International Film Festival
• Special Screening-By-Invitation: The Journalists for Human Rights, Canada
• Special Screening-By-Invitation: The Massachusetts Association of Human Rights Commission
• Special Screening-By-Invitation: The Providence Journal/Brown University 2004 Public Affairs Conference
• Special Screening-By-Invitation: The World Learning Institute, School for International Training
• Selected as Opening Night film at the 2004 Amnesty International Film Festival
• Nominated as Best Film at the Pan-African Film and Arts Festival
• Writer/Director Ziad Hamzeh interviewed on NPR's "HERE AND NOW"

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SHADOW GLORIES

Directed/Produced by Ziad H. Hamzeh, Executive Producer Paul F. Harron Jr., Produced by Bert Brown, Written and Produced by Marc Sandler

• Best of Festival/Best Feature Film: The Dances With Films Festival
• Best of Festival Grand Prize: The Woods Hole Film Festival
• Best Editing Grand Prize: The Rhode Island International Film Festival
• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Semi-Finalist & Quarterfinalist
• The Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema Screenwriting Award Semi-Finalist
• The Syrian Medal of Honor awarded to Director/Producer Ziad H. Hamzeh in recognition for SHADOW GLORIES and a lifetime’s work
• Largest Domestic Theatrical Release of any Independent Feature Film in New England History: General Cinemas, Hoyts, Loews, Showcase, Cinemagic, and Flagship Theatres. Hamzeh Mystique Films, Distributor
• Box Office Winner - Number 1: Lewiston and Auburn, Maine
• Special Screening Invitations: The Riverrun Film Festival, The Damascus International Film Festival, The Los Angeles Learning Tree University Special Screenings: AMC Theatre
• The Riverrun Film Festival Best Actor Runner-Up: Marc Sandler

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Press Releases

• HMF’s THE LETTER Takes Manhattan
• THE LETTER: AN AMERICAN TOWN AND THE SOMALI INVASION Celebrates Black History Month With New York Theatrical Release
• THE LETTER: AN AMERICAN TOWN AND THE SOMALI INVASION Second New York Theatrical Release
• THE LETTER Heralded By The Southern Poverty Law Center and Tolerance.org
• Canadian Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) Special Screening of Hamzeh Mystique Films' THE LETTER
• THE LETTER: AN AMERICAN TOWN AND THE SOMALI INVASION United Kingdom/European Premiere
• Hamzeh Mystique Films Unseals “THE LETTER”
• Hamzeh Mystique Films opens THE LETTER at AFI Fest 2003
• Critically acclaimed documentary THE LETTER nominated for Best Documentary at 2004 Pan-African Film & Arts Festival
• Critically acclaimed documentary THE LETTER is an Official Selection of the 2004 Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival and the 2004 Newport Beach Film Festival
• Controversial documentary footage from THE LETTER subpoenaed in federal murder solicitation trial of Matthew Hale
• Hamzeh Mystique Films Announces SHADOW GLORIES Roll Out
• Screenwriter’s Twenty-year Dream Comes True
• Mayor of Lewiston's Press Release
• New England Media Letter
• The New England Theatrical Release 1
• The New England Theatrical Release 2
• Ziad H. Hamzeh, of Hamzeh Mystique Films, Receives Medal of Honor
• SHADOW GLORIES: Coming to a theatre near you
• SHADOW GLORIES wins