Aprli 30, 2009

Chris Triffo, President of Partners in Motion and Director of the Emmy Award-winning documentary, Thirteen Seconds: The Kent Sate Shootings, will be a Featured Speaker at the Kent State University’s Annual Symposium on Democracy. Triffo’s presentation is titled “The Documentary Filmmaker: Darwinian History.” He will be speaking on how current events are filtered, thus manipulating reality and
altering history.

Established in 2000 as part of the university's commemoration of the events of May 4, 1970, Kent State hosts an annual symposium on democracy in an effort to learn from the past some important lessons for the future. On May 4 and 5, 2009, Kent State University will convene its 10th Symposium on Democracy. Each symposium explores a “critical question for our democratic society,” in the hope that “democracy can lead to a more peaceful world.” This year’s symposium, “Re-membering: Framing, Embracing, Revising History,” will explore questions of how a society remembers and writes its history.

About Partners In Motion:
Partners In Motion is an Emmy® award winning, full-service media production and distribution company that balances national and international documentaries, docudramas, co-productions, corporate work in film and video production, standard and high-definition television series as well as multimedia and digital animation. The company has produced over 300 hours of programming which is broadcast in every major territory throughout the world.

For more information on Chris Triffo visit:
www.partnersinmotion.com/chris_triffo.php

For more information on the symposium visit:
www.kent.edu/About/History/May4/Democracy/index.cfm

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