September Tapes

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{{Infobox film

| name = September Tapes

| image =

| director = Christian Johnston

| producer = Matthew Rhodes
Wali Razaqi
Christian Johnston
George Calil
Judd Payne
{{small|(executive producer)}}
Brent Henry
Shawn Henry
Kevin Loughery Jr.
Don Sallee

| writer = Christian Van Gregg
Christian Johnston

| narrator = George Calil

| starring = George Calil
Wali Razaqi
Sunil Sadarangani

| music = Gunnard Doboze

| cinematography = Christian Johnston

| editing = Darren Mann
Jeffro Brunk
Peter Finestone

| studio =

| distributor = First Look Pictures

| released = {{Film date|2004|09|24}}

| runtime = 95 min.

| country = United States

| language = English
Persian

| budget =

}}

September Tapes is a faux-documentary feature film co-written and directed by Christian Johnston in his feature debut. An early review of the film's promotional trailer noted that the footage looked "more real than network news footage".{{cite web |url=http://www.indiescene.net/archives/indie_film_september.html |title=Movie Marketing Blog - Movie Marketing Update: Indie Film 'September Tapes' upstages Recent Hollywood Efforts at Viral Marketing |publisher=Indiescene.net |date=2004-06-05 |accessdate=2014-02-02 |archive-date=2012-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222191125/http://www.indiescene.net/archives/indie_film_september.html |url-status=dead }}

Distribution

The film was first presented at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004, where First Look Media acquired worldwide distribution rights.{{cite web|url=http://www.reeldv.com/Sundance2004/SEPT_TAPES.html |title=September Tapes Acquired At Sundance |publisher=Reeldv.com |date=2004-01-22 |accessdate=2014-02-02}} In May of the same year, it was featured at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film screened at many other film festivals, including: the Deauville American Film Festival, France; the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, Denmark; the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, Netherlands; and others.

The film is translated to "Septiembre Negro" ("Black September") for Spanish-language audiences.

See also

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