Award Winning Documentary Feature Film "A Culture Of Silence" Opens in Boston at West Newton Cinema on Friday, November 14, 2014

    BOSTON, MA, November 04, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Worldwide Cinema F R A M E S studios/films presents the Boston theatrical release of "A Culture of Silence," a documentary feature film about the human condition in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The award winning film opens on Friday, November 14, 2014 at the West Newton Cinema, located at 1296 Washington St, West Newton, MA 02465. The Boston release will be followed by a limited run in NYC and possibly Los Angeles.

Synopsis of Film: "A Culture of Silence" is an award winning documentary feature film about the human condition in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The film follows two independent documentary filmmakers, Raouf J. Jacob and Lara M. Moreno, as they travel across Sierra Leone exploring sensitive environmental, social and cultural issues that the nation deems as untouchable and even a taboo. Explore the invisible war against poverty, Sierra Leone's controversial diamond mining industry, a world filled with lost child soldiers living in the shadows, and experience what millions of young girls in Africa call their "Secret Pain" (Female Genital Mutilation). Is there still blood on the stone? Where are the lost boys, the children of war? What is the "secret pain"? Could the silence be broken in a world where culture is currently at war with human rights? The film also follows the personal journey of one of the filmmakers, Raouf J Jacob, as he returns back to Sierra Leone for the first time since his family fled what historians have called the most barbaric civil war in human history.

About The Director: Raouf J Jacob is a human rights activist and the Director at Worldwide Cinema F R A M E S. Jacob "Films To Make People Care" about human rights violations and the human condition around the globe. The award-winning director is originally from war-torn Sierra Leone, West Africa. His family fled Sierra Leone at the climax of the barbaric civil war in 1999 and immigrated to Boston, MA in January of 2000. Jacob is now a documentarian and has written, produced and directed documentaries spotlighting social and political injustice. The filmmaker created the "In a Blind World" series, which explored Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem," the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, the current ongoing genocide in Sudan's western region of Darfur, the persecution of the Baha'i community in Iran and the reign of former warlord Pablo Escobar in The Republic of Colombia. "A Culture of Silence" is the filmmaker's first full feature length documentary. Jacob has collaborated and continues to work with NGOs around the world in hopes of raising awareness about the human condition near and far.

Current Awards for Your Consideration:

2014 Marche Du Film, Festival De Cannes

WINNER Best Indie Spec Documentary
Feature Film at the 2014 Boston International Film Festival

WINNER Best Documentary Feature Film at
the 2014 16th Annual Roxbury International Film Festival

WINNER Best Documentary Feature Film
at the 2014 New York City International Film Festival

WINNER Silver Palm Award for Documentary Feature at the 2014 Mexico International Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION at
2014 Chicago International Social Change Film Festival

WINNER Achivement in Documentary Film
2014 Silicon Valley African Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION at upcoming
2014 MICA Film Festival, Brazil

California Legislature
Assembly Certificate of Recognition
Raouf J. Jacob,
Filmmaker & Director of "A Culture of Silence"

Worldwide Cinema F R A M E S is an independent film making production company created and founded in 2006 by Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker Raouf J. Jacob, originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa, who is currently residing in Boston, Massachusetts. The documentary filmmaker "films to make people care" about the human condition and human rights violations around the globe. The company has collaborated with Non Governmental Organizations around the globe to raise awareness and spotlight social injustice. Worldwide Cinema F R A M E S was recently in Sierra Leone filming "A Culture of Silence," an award winning documentary feature film about the human condition in a post civil war era.

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