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Cristina Khuly’s Shoot Down: Poster One Sheet

Published on January 15, 2008

There are two classes of documentary filmmakers – those who find a topic and then document it and then those who are hit on a personal note. Very much a DIY distribution, Cristina Khuly’s Shoot Down (in limited theaters this coming January 25th) tells the tale of thousands of
Cuban refugees who attempted in the 90’s to cross the Florida Straits by whatever means
available – small boats, homemade rafts and inner tubes. Only one in four
rafters made it to U.S. shores, with tens of thousands
perishing at sea. A volunteer group based in Miami called “Brothers to the Rescue” was
formed to patrol the Straits in small civilian aircraft, offering aid to
rafters.

Look for more coverage on this documentary film here at IONCINEMA.com. Here is the final poster one sheet for the doc.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).