FPC-Ark Media, an independent documentary film
production company located in Brooklyn, NY, is making a documentary
about “the My Lai massacre.”
A three Americans crew visited My
Lai in Son Tinh District, Quang Ngai province of central Vietnam from July
15 – July 20, 2009 to film interviews with survivors of the massacre, villagers
and the landscapes surrounding what remains of the village.
The documentary will be shown in the United States
on the acclaimed public television series American Experience, and will
be licensed for broadcast all over the world. In addition, it will be made
available to schools and universities so a whole generation of young people may
learn from it.
“This episode, which cost the lives of 504
innocent Vietnamese civilians in March 16th 1968, remains one of the
most shameful in American military history and certainly must rank as one of
the most painful in Vietnamese history. Our purpose in revisiting this story is
to explore how and why it happened, so as to help prevent its ever happening
again.”, said Jamila Ephron, associate producer for this documentary.
Ark Media was founded by Barak
Goodman and Rachel Dretzin, produces historical, cultural and public affairs
documentaries for the PBS series FRONTLINE and American Experience, as well as
cable outlets like The History Channel and AMC. In the last few years, Ark films have been nominated for an Academy Award and
won the National Emmy, a Dupont-Columbia, an RFK Journalism, a Peabody, and a Writers Guild Award.
