Cinema Slate to Open I TOUCHED ALL YOUR STUFF Documentary 8/28 in NYC, L.A.

Cinema Slate, a new distribution label specialized in foreign cinema (with an emphasis in Latin American films), is proud to announce the theatrical opening of the documentary I TOUCHED ALL YOUR STUFF (2015), following the film's US premiere at the Museum of the Moving Image (First Look series) earlier this year.

Winner of the Best Editing award at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, and an official selection at RIDM and FID Marseille (two prestigious international documentary film festivals), I TOUCHED ALL YOUR STUFF will open Friday, August 28, in New York City (Cinema Village) and Los Angeles (The Arena), before expanding to other cities throughout the fall. A digital release is expected in late August or September, and the film's home media release is slated for December 2015.

Co-directed by Maíra Bühler and Matias Mariani, I TOUCHED ALL YOUR STUFF tells the story of how Chris Kirk, a brilliant IT technician from Michigan, left a stable job in Olympia, Washington, moved to Bogotá, fell in love with a mysterious woman and ended up in a Brazilian jail for international drug smuggling.

After reading about Pablo Escobar's hippos in a magazine, and feeling that his life had reached a dead end, Chris Kirk bought a plane ticket to Colombia and decided to start anew in South America. On his first day in Bogotá, he met an alluring Japanese-Colombian woman named "V," and the two began an intense love affair that would culminate in his arrest in Brazil.

As Chris Kirk began to re-construct the story of his relationship with "V" from prison, he authorized both filmmakers to retrieve an 80 GB hard-drive that was in his friend's possession in the US. That drive supposedly contained the digital reminiscences of his life in Colombia -- and an outburst of videos, pictures, emails, chat exchanges and other data that would offer proof of his INNOCENCE and shed new light onto V's identity.

Despite the new trove of evidence, no narrative proves to be fully verifiable, and the closer the filmmakers get to understanding the puzzle of Chris Kirk's story, the more they struggle with his unique interpretation of events. In the process, Maíra Bühler and Matias Mariani seem to fall prey to a similar form of COMPULSION that drove Chris Kirk to Colombia in the first place.