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MEDIA ADVISORY:
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta to
Attend Tribeca Film Festival
Premiere of Documentary Film - ‘Brotherhood’
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta tonight
will attend the world premiere of the documentary film, “Brotherhood”
at the Tribeca Film Festival in Lower Manhattan. Hundreds
of Department members and their families will also attend
the screening. The film follows the members of Squad 252 in
Brooklyn, Rescue 1 in Manhattan and Rescue 4 in Queens in
the months following the first anniversary of September 11,
2001. “Brotherhood” is a production of the recent
Academy-award® winning production company @radical.media
(for “Fog of War”– best feature length documentary)
and was produced by Jon Kamen and Frank Scherma and directed
by Lilibet Foster.
The Tribeca Film Festival was co-founded by Robert De Niro,
Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in the aftermath of September
11th to celebrate New York City as a major filmmaking capital
and to contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan.
WHO: |
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta; FDNY Chief
of Department Frank Cruthers; FDNY Chief of Operations
Salvatore Cassano; Various members of the FDNY |
WHAT: |
World Premiere of Documentary Film, “Brotherhood” |
WHERE: |
Tribeca Performing Arts Center, West Side Highway
and Chambers Street, Manhattan |
WHEN: |
Monday, May 3, 2004 at 7:30 PM |
**Photo-Op**
Contact: Francis X. Gribbon / Viriginia Lam
(FDNY) (718) 999-2056
http://www.nyc.gov/fdny
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