New Meeting: Torn from the Flag - Oscar Fundraiser with Writer, Director, and Producer

Hi y'all!

This is a very important event that we would like everyone to be a part of. Please take five minutes to click on the link, review the information, RSVP, and send your donation to Nemedi Zsolt today. I would also like to please ask everyone to invite their friends and colleagues. We need 200 - 300 people to make this happen!

Sincerely,
Anne Lynch



Announcing a new meeting for The Atlanta Hungarian Meetup Group!

What: Torn from the Flag - Oscar Fundraiser with Writer, Director, and Producer

When: Saturday, May 31, 6:00 PM

Meeting fee: USD50.00 per person

Where: Click the link below to find out!

Who should come: You, your family, your friends, your neighbors, people you meet in line at the grocery store line :), history buffs, and everyone else!

Why: All of the organizers have seen the film and were thoroughly impressed. It is a very important film that needs to be seen by the world. Let's all help get it to the Oscars!

Meeting Description:
OSCAR® RACE FUNDRAISING
FILM SCREENING IN ATLANTA






OSCAR® RACE FUNDRAISING FILM SCREENIG

You and a guest are cordially invited to the red carpet Oscar race fundraising event for the multi-award-winning, international documentary thriller Torn from the Flag, about the fall of communism and the significant global effects of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Saturday, May 31, 6:00 pm
Georgia Tech, College of Management, LeCraw Auditorium, 1st Floor
800 West Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30308

Master of Ceremonies: John E. Parkerson, Jr. ? Honorary Consul of the Republic of Hungary
Principal Patron: Andrea Lauer-Rice ? CEO and Founder of Lauer Learning
Filmmaker in Attendance: Klaudia Kovacs ? Producer, Director, Writer

Hollywood legends Oscar winner Vilmos Zsigmond and multi-award winner László Kovács were the Executive Producers. László Kovács was also the Director of Photography. This powerful, bold, thought-provoking film features, in person or in archive footage, Henry Kissinger, Otto von Habsburg, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, George Vassiliou, Árpád Göncz and Imre Pozsgay.

In Los Angeles, Torn from the Flag* was screened in the "Milestones" section of the American Film Institute Festival along with Ingmar Bergman?s and Michelangelo Antonioni?s films. The critiques of Torn from the Flag are outstanding:
"Superb." ? Chuck Wilson, LA Weekly

"? It chains you to your seat and helps us understand what freedom truly means."
? Leslie Eloed, American Hungarian Journal

"?the best documentary film on the 1956 Hungarian revolution?" ? István Deák, Seth Low Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University

"? a lively piece of history, put together with a good deal of technical skill as well as unmistakable passion?"
? Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter

Watch the film preview here: YouTube Preview of Torn from the Flag

WE NEED TO RAISE $161,000 BY JULY 1, 2008 IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE OSCAR RACE

Please write your check to the International Documentary Association and send your $50/person event participation fee by May 20th, to:
Zsolt Némedi (Torn from the Flag)
125 Windward Lane, Roswell, GA 30076
Tel: 770.552.8731

Additional donations will be greatly appreciated. Also, there will be a reception after the film screening, serving wine and tasty Hungarian specialties. Donors will receive a special surprise gift!

Parking: Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, 800 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30308
Exit the parking lot via Spring Street and walk ahead, east on Armistead Place. The entrance to the building is on your left, across from the Sun Trust parking lot, before reaching West Peachtree Street.
http://mgt.gatech.edu...

*Not appropriate for ages under 16.

Learn more here:
http://hungarian.meet...