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Ruthless Films Presents:
Tony and Janina's American Wedding

Saturday, May 14, 2011

May 8, 2011       1 Comments
By: Mike Bacigalupo - State Theatre

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Ruthless Films presents: Tony and Janina's American Wedding on Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 7:00 PM at the Bay City State Theater

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Tony & Janina's American Wedding is a feature length documentary that gets to the heart of the broken, red tape ridden U.S. immigration system.

After 18 years in America, Tony and Janina Wasilewski's family is torn apart when Janina is deported back to Poland, taking their 6 year old son Brian with her. Set on the backdrop of the Chicago political scene, and featuring Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez at the heart of the immigration reform movement, this film follows the Wasilewski's 3-year struggle to be reunited, as their Senator Barack Obama rises to the Presidency. With a fresh perspective on the immigration conversation, this film tells the untold human rights story of Post-9/11 America, that every undocumented immigrant in our country faces today, with the power to open the conversation for change. - Directed by Ruth Leitman

About Director Ruth Leitman:
Ruth Leitman (Director/Producer) - Leitman has directed six feature-length documentary films. She received a Rockefeller Fellowship for her film Alma (1998), which also received the Documentary Feature Jury Prize winner at the Hamptons International Film Festival, and was selected to screen at the Director's Guild of America NYC and the Whitney Biennial 2000.

Alma aired on TV Ontario and Channel Four Finland. Her most recent feature film Lipstick & Dynamite (2005) premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival and screened at several other festivals, including the Nantucket Film Festival, where it won the Best Documentary Storytelling award. The film was featured on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' and 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien,' and Leitman was a guest on NPR's 'Fresh Air with Terry Gross.' Lipstick & Dynamite was released theatrically by Koch Lorber Films and aired on SHOWTIME.

Leitman's upcoming fiction feature projects include three screenplays she has written, The Wind Cries Mary, a girl wrestling script set in the '50s entitled, The Pin-Down Girl and Venus Stopped the Train.

Leitman's directing clients include: Oxygen Network, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Sallie Mae Student Loans, Related Midwest, American Trial Lawyers Association, Safe Humane Chicago, Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health, Fair Wisconsin, Neko Case and The Redwalls.



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Mike Bacigalupo is the Executive Director of the State Theater in Downtown Bay City, Michigan

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