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The Guatemalan Handshake
at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, MD
Friday April 27th - Wednesday May 2nd
Nightly at 9:00pm

Featuring Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy), Cory McAbee (The American Astronaut) with music by The Moldy Peaches and Kongor-ol Ondar
All shows preceeded by two rarely-seen short films:

"Will You Lather Up My Rough House?" Directed by David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls, Undertow, Snow Angels)

"The Aluminum Fowl" Directed by James Clauer, Produced by Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo)

Friday and Saturday night's screenings will also include a live performance by BOB the band from Italy as well as a Q&A with the cast & crew of the film moderated by DC's own legendary filmmaker Jeff Krulik

About the film:
Winner - Special Jury Prize - Slamdance Film Festival
Winner - Best Director - Torino Film Festival
Winner - Jury Prize - Outstanding Ensemble Performance - Torino Film Festival
Winner - Best Screenplay- Torino Film Festival
Winner - Best Film - Arizona Film Festival

"Watching Todd Rohal’s The Guatemalan Handshake is sort of like dreaming; you think you know what you’re looking at one moment, and then, in the next, you realize you were wrong. Just as often as the film evokes a sort of mysterious awe, it also can be knee-slappingly silly and downright bizarre. It’s a real dream of a film."
-- Jim Healy - George Eastman House

"Todd Rohal's feature debut bristles with his anarchic visual language, offbeat humor, ephemeral sense of narrative, circuitous character sketches, and freewheeling sense of mirth."
--Bret McCabe, Baltimore City Paper

"The Guatemalan Handshake is more inventive in its first ten minutes than the entire duration of many films at the elder [Sundance] festival."
--Jonathan Marlow, GreenCine

"One of the coolest and most original indies of the last year."
--Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine

Tickets can be pre-ordered online at:
http://www.afi.com/silver/new/nowplaying/2007/v4i2/handshake.aspx

More information on the film and trailer are available at:
http://www.ghandshake.com