Promotion and Screenings
The film was initially promoted via the internet by HonestReporting and later through campus and Washington, DC screenings and later mass DVD distribution by the Clarion Fund. HonestReporting, a media watch organization run by Ephraim Shore, the twin brother of Obsession producer Raphael Shore, was involved in the initial internet-based promotion of the film. During production in 2005, the media watch group HonestReporting promoted the film as one of its projects. Later when the film was released, HonestReporting promoted the film on its website describing it as an "affiliate" project. The media watch group, in an interview with The Jewish Week, says it was not involved in the film's production.
CNN Headline News has shown segments of the film. Fox News has shown and hosted on its website segments of the film. Seven times in November 2006, Fox News showed a one-hour special incorporating segments from the film.
The documentary has been screened on 30 major campuses including Hofstra, Pace, USC, UCLA, NYU, and McGill.
In December 2006, U.S. Representatives Eric Cantor (R-VA), Chief Deputy Majority Whip, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) co-sponsored a screening of the film on Capitol Hill. Cantor's cousin and Wasserman's constituent, Daniel Cantor Wultz, was killed in an attack by an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber.
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