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From Reporters Without Borders: Press releaseSeptember 9, 2008NIGERIA US filmmaker and reporter released after ten days of questioning Reporters Without Borders is relieved today by the news that US filmmaker and reporter Andrew Berends has been released from Nigerian government … Continue reading →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *****************CONTAINS UPDATES*********************** CONTACT Aaron Soffin, Storyteller Productions Phone: 917.887.4063 / 212.712.2781 Email: soffin@gmail.com American filmmaker provisionally released from Nigerian custody to US embassy personnel NEW YORK, September 5, 2008 – American filmmaker Andrew Berends is being provisionally … Continue reading →

******************************** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *****************CONTAINS UPDATES*********************** CONTACT Aaron Soffin, Storyteller Productions Phone: 917.887.4063 / 212.712.2781 Email: soffin@gmail.com Senator Charles Schumer calls American filmmaker’s detainment by the Nigerian government “untenable” NEW YORK, September 4, 2008 – Hearing of the arrest of … Continue reading →

My good friend’s colleague and fellow filmmaker Andrew Berends was arrested in Nigeria. Please help spread the word as international pressure will help speed up his release. For more information, see this article in the New York Times (full text … Continue reading →