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Provo, UT -- Minority Films announced this week that it's film "This
Divided State" has won the audience award for Best Documentary Feature
at the 2005 Santa Cruz Film Festival. After a week of stiff
competition, "This Divided State" took the prize over a dozen other
documentaries screening at the festival.
"This Divided State" took the festival by surprise, playing at
the Rio Theatre in downtown, a luxurious 700-plus seat movie palace
from the 1940's. The festival win for the film, which chronicles the
uprising in the conservative city of Orem after Michael Moore was
invited to speak at Utah Valley State College just two weeks before
one of the most divisive presidential elections in history, comes off
the heels of a 23 college tour across the nation, sponsored by the
Washington D.C. based Center For American Progress. The film,
described as "…more important than anything Michael Moore has made to
date," has garnered attention from such renowned publications as USA
Today and the Washington Post and prompted standing ovations at
campuses from Yale to USC, proving the film's cultural significance
and appeal on a national scale.
For more information, trailers, clips and pictures from the film
visit www.thisdividedstate.com.

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