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Nothing is Truer than Truth in Post Production

Thank you to everyone who helped make it possible for us to get to post-production. We are thrilled to announce that we have launched a new campaign for finishing funds. As key members of the NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH team, you are vital to the success of the project. We need your help to [...]


Shakespeare the Writer

SHAKESPEARE THE WRITER By Cheryl Eagan-Donovan With this week’s release of Roland Emmerich’s biopic Anonymous, audiences around the world will get their first glimpse of the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, also known as the Elizabethan poet and playwright Edward de Vere. The most controversial thing about the film is not that it presents Edward de [...]


SHAKESPEARE IN ITALY ON SCREEN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 29, 2011 (Boston, Massachusetts) Contact: Cheryl Eagan-Donovan (781) 729-6204 SHAKESPEARE IN ITALY ON SCREEN Director Cheryl Eagan-Donovan recently returned from Italy where she and her crew were filming on location for the new Controversy Films feature length documentary, Nothing is Truer than Truth. The film is currently in post-production and a [...]


Preview Screening at Shakespeare Authorship Conference

We are very pleased to announce that we will be screening a PREVIEW of NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH at the Shakespeare Authorship Conference in Washington D.C. on Saturday October 15th. For more on the conference, go to http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/conference2011/ Join the discussion and show your support for Brunel University’s MA in Authorship Studies Program: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417586&c=1


SHAKESPEARE IN VENICE PREVIEW PARTY APRIL 13th at OBERON

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 2, 2011 (Boston, Massachusetts) Contact: Cheryl Eagan-Donovan (781) 729-6204 SHAKESPEARE IN VENICE A fundraising preview party, Carnivale in Venice, will take place on April 13th at Oberon in Cambridge, MA. The event will include a Venetian Carnivale celebration and masque, guest DJ, dancing, clips from the work in progress, and a [...]


ALL KINDSA GIRLS screening in Providence Wednesday January 19th

Please join us: Controversy Films presents all kindsa girls an evolutionary tale featuring the Real Kids A Free Screening to Celebrate the DVD Release Wednesday January 19th at 7 p.m. Knight Memorial Library 275 Elmwood Avenue Providence, Rhode Island For directions go to www.provcomlib.org “The group’s bad behavior and bad decisions are as legendary as [...]


NEXT STOP VENICE!

Thanks to everyone who helped make our Kickstarter campaign a huge success! Here are a few holidays gifts from fellow Oxfordians: From John Shahan and Keir Cutler – a new video to share with your friends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyVjR9FNo9w Watch the video, then help us make it “go viral” by calling attention to it in the following [...]


Shakespeare in Venice Fundraising Campaign

Controversy Films launches Kickstarter Campaign to raise funds to film in Venice. I want to personally thank all of you who have contributed to my documentary project NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH. Your generosity has made the project possible. I have had the great honor of interviewing scholars and actors around the world, and I [...]


Controversy Films at the Ashland Authorship Conference

Controversy Films documented the Ashland Authorship Conference in Oregon last month for the upcoming film Nothing is Truer than Truth. In addition to filming the signing of the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt and Keir Cutler’s performance of Mark Twain’s Is Shakespeare Dead? the crew filmed interviews with several notable conference attendees, including Michael Cecil, 18th [...]


Theater professionals sign Declaration of Reasonable Doubt in Ashland, Oregon

From the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition In a public ceremony in Ashland, Oregon, home of the prestigious Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), several prominent theater professionals recently signed a hard copy poster of the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt About the Identity of William Shakespeare…Read the entire article