FilmRise Acquires WW Rights to Award-Winning Documentary FINDING OSCAR

FilmRise has announced that is has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Ryan Suffern's award-winning documentary Finding Oscar. FilmRise will release the film theatrically in spring of 2017. The film will be available for streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in the summer of 2017.

Directed by Ryan Suffern, produced by Frank Marshall and Suffern, and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Finding Oscar follows the investigation into the Dos Erres massacre that began on December 6, 1982. Today marks the 34th anniversary of this atrocity, when a team of special forces soldiers from the Guatemalan military raided the village of Dos Erres during the de facto presidency of General Efraín Ríos Montt. Of the 250 residents of Dos Erres who died at the hands of the military over the next days, a young boy named Oscar was spared by army commandos and brought up by one of the men who killed his family.

More than 29 years after the massacre and over a decade after the end of the Guatemalan Civil War, Oscar Ramírez has made his home outside of Boston with his wife and children. When he gets an unexpected phone call, Oscar learns that he is living evidence of a tragedy, and that he may be the key to finding justice for the forgotten people of Dos Erres.

The documentary had its world premiere at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival and most recently screened at DOC NYC. Finding Oscar is the latest film to emerge from The Kennedy/Marshall Company's documentary division, and is a co-production with USC Shoah Foundation.

"Now more than ever, we feel this is a film that will resonate greatly with audiences, both here in the US and abroad," said filmmaker Ryan Suffern. "The anniversary of the Dos Erres Massacre is a stark reminder that the search for truth and justice continues in Guatemala, and we're certainly hopeful that the forthcoming release of Finding Oscar will aid those efforts."

"Ryan Suffern has told an incredibly important, meaningful and timely story in Finding Oscar," said Danny Fisher, CEO of FilmRise. "We're proud to be working with the filmmaking team to bring Finding Oscar to a wide audience next year."

"This film has been a passion project for all that have been involved in its making over the past few years," said producer Frank Marshall. "We're beyond thrilled to be partnering with FilmRise and Amazon to bring this story to the significant audience it deserves."

The deal was negotiated between Fisher and FilmRise's VP of Acquisitions Max Einhorn with Kevin Iwashina and Adam Galen of Preferred Content.

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