The powerful and anticipated documentary about a nun’s murder in the Amazon, THEY KILLED SISTER DOROTHY won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival on Tuesday night. Director Daniel Junge, Oscar-winning producer Nigel Noble, producer Henry Ansbacher, and Dorothy’s best friend and colleague Sister Becky Spires were in attendance to receive the awards. David Stang, who survived her and continues to seek justice for her death in Brazil, had left Austin earlier that day, but received the news that evening at his home in Denver.

Produced by the Just Media Fund, THEY KILLED SISTER DOROTHY follows the powerful real-life courtroom drama that unfolds at the trials of her killers and explores her life’s work in the Brazilian rainforest that led to that fateful day.On February 12, 2005, Sister Dorothy Stang, a 73 year-old catholic nun from Ohio, was shot six times at point blank range and left to die on a muddy Amazon road. Her murder shocked the world and exposed a sordid battle in the Brazilian rainforest.

Narrated by Martin Sheen and produced by Academy Award® winner Nigel Nobel, THEY KILLED SISTER DOROTHY weaves a tale of murder mystery and courtroom drama with surprising twists set against the larger battle for the rainforest.

The Just Media Fund is a non-profit organization that aspires to impact the current media landscape and to realize the potential of media to engender a sense of connectedness among members of our global community. Just Media’s mission is to raise awareness of current social and environmental issues in the broadest audience through the development and production of innovative and compelling media projects. Founded in 2000 by Henry Ansbacher, Just Media has produced a number of critically lauded documentaries directed by Daniel Junge, including CHIEFS (winner, Best Documentary, Tribeca Film Festival), which will air on ESPN soon and IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA (winner, Spirit of Freedom Documentary Award, Bahamas International Film Festival), which will broadcast nationally on PBS acclaimed series "Independent Lens" on March 18th, 2008."

THE KILLED SISTER DOROTHY FILM INFORMATION:
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION – WORLD PREMIERE
SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST FILM FESTIVAL 2008
USA, 2008, 94 mins, HD Cam Color
DIRECTOR: Daniel Junge
NARRATOR: Martin Sheen
PRODUCERS: Henry Ansbacher, Nigel Nobel
MUSIC: Pedro Bromfman
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Marcela Bourseau and Daniel Junge
EDITOR: David Coombe