The award-winning film World Without Waves, a provocative look at love, lust, self-deception and redemption, will premiere in Fort Worth on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006 at 7:00 PM at The Modern Art Museum. The free screening presented by The Lone Star Film Society will include a discussion about the film and its making with the filmmaker, J. Mitchell Johnson, who is a resident of Fort Worth.

Winner of Best Southwest Film at the Santa Fe Film Festival, World Without Waves debuted at the Moscow International Festival. The movie stars Will Foster Stewart (Training Day, Sex and the City) as Louis, an electrically challenged television executive, and Tara Bast (Third Watch) as Louis’ lover, Sarah. Also in the movie are Jeff Kober (China Beach, Coyote Moon), Fort Worth native Steve Bruton (The Alamo) and Dallas resident Brad Leland (Cadillac Ranch, The Patriot, and The Stars Fell on Henrietta.)

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

J. Mitchell Johnson has been responsible for creating more than 100 hours of documentary programming that have been broadcast and sold worldwide. As a producer and director, he has won numerous top awards at film festivals across the United States. Most recently he produced and directed Yanks for Stalin for The History Channel, and was the originator and series producer of Abamedia’s critically acclaimed Red Files, produced for prime-time PBS and distributed worldwide by Buena Vista Television and Home Video. Red Files won the year 2000 “Best Limited Series” award from the Los Angeles-based International Documentary Association (IDA). World Without Waves is Johnson’s first dramatic feature film.

Mr. Johnson is the founder of www.RussianArchives.com, a public-private initiative that has provided ground-breaking access to the Russian State Film and Photo Archives. He also founded Snaps™, a collaborative, streaming media editing and exchange system that serves the emerging markets for video creation, mash-ups, and other multi-media use. Snaps provides digital rights management to global content owners by linking to rather than copying digital media content.

Johnson began traveling to Russia in 1994 in a media co-venture with ABC News in New York. He was the architect and executive producer of a groundbreaking news magazine series based on 20-20 that aired all over the former Soviet Union. In 1996 he founded Abamedia, LP. Abamedia eventually became the Russian Government’s trade representative for its State Film and Photo Archives at Krasnogorsk, one of the premiere audio-visual archives in the world.

Johnson has been Chairman of the Media Panel for the Texas Committee for the Arts and President of the Texas Independent Producers Association. Currently he serves on the board of Fort Worth Sister Cities International, the Lone Star Film Society, and in 2005 chaired the Education and Technology Panel of the 2nd Annual US-Russia Exchange Symposium, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia.

Date and Time: November 8, 2006 at 7:00 PM

Location: The Modern Art Museum

Admission: FREE

Reservations: Call 817-735-1117 or visit the Lone Star Film Society website. Walk-ins will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.