Oliver Stone

OLIVER
STONE’S ‘SOUTH OF THE BORDER’ EMBARKS ON
PRESIDENTIAL TOUR

International roll-out includes Caracas premiere with
Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez, first ever film premiere in Cochabamba, Bolivia
with
President Evo Morales and Madrid premiere as part of event dedicated to
Haiti
relief  

LOS ANGELES (May 2, 2010) – Oliver Stone’s new documentary,
South of the Border, will launch its international release
campaign with
a series of premieres in Spain and South America attended by the
presidents of
Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Venezuela. It will premiere in
Madrid, Spain on May 18 with many of the presidents attending as part of
an
evening dedicated to Haiti relief, and will also premiere in several
popular
outdoors venues in South America, including the first ever film premiere
in the
remote Cochabamba region of Bolivia. The film will be released
nationwide in
the U.S. by Cinema Libre Studio on June 25.

South of
the Border

chronicles Stone’s travels to South America in the winter
of 2009 and tells the story of the rise to power of Venezuelan President
Hugo
Chávez and other South American presidents responsible for sweeping
changes in
the region.  Described as a “political Buena
Vista Social Club road movie,” the film features intimate
conversations
with Chávez, Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina
Kirchner
(Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Néstor Kirchner,
Fernando
Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba). More
details
are available at

http://www.southoftheborderdoc.com/

.

The
premiere schedule is as follows:

May 18                  

Madrid,
Spain premiere with Presidents from the film

May 28                  

Caracas,
Venezuela premiere with President Hugo Chavez

                 May 29                  

 

“Cine
Movil”  screening in Bolivar Place, Caracas

                 May 30                    

Quito,
Ecuador Premiere with President Rafael Correa 

                 May 31                    

Sao
Paulo, Brazil Premiere

                 June 1                  

  

Cochabamba, Bolivia with President Evo Morales

                 June 2                  

   

Paraguay
Premiere with President Fernando Lugo

                 June 3

                 

   

Buenos
Aires,
Argentina premiere

Directed by the three-time
Academy Award

® winner
Oliver Stone (Platoon, Born on the Fourth
of July, JFK), the film has been produced by Fernando Sulichin, Rob
Wilson
and Jose Ibanez, and Executive Produced by Chris Hanley. Tariq Ali,
historian
and author of Pirates

of the
Caribbean: Axis of Hope, serves as screenwriter with Mark Weisbrot,
co-director of the Center of Economic Policy and Research in D.C. The
film will
be distributed by Pampa Films in Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru,
Paraguay
and Chile; Europa Filmes in Brazil; and Raul Chamorro in Venezuela. It
will be
released by Dogwoof in the U.K. on July 30.

About Cinema
Libre Studio:

Cinema Libre
Studio has been a
leader in the distribution of social issue and political films that
tackle
timely issues.  The company is a haven for independent filmmakers
offering
comprehensive service from production through distribution.
Headquartered in
Los Angeles, the company is best known for distributing award-winning
films
that include: Outfoxed, Uncovered: The War on Iraq,
Participant
Media’s Angels In The Dust, and The End of Poverty?  For
more
information, please visit

www.cinemalibrestudio.com

.