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Mary Aloe exec produce best documentary profiles the mother of Barack Obama – Charles Burnett directs

(LOS ANGELES) – Aloe Entertainment in association with IMG, and Schroeder-Ptacek Productions announced today the start of the first film in the history of Stanley Ann Dunham, who helped Parents gather unconventional 44th President of the United States and should become a leader in the new movement now known as microfinance, which target small entrepreneurs in developing countries. The documentary, feature film project will be directed by Charles Burnett ("sleep in anger," "Killer of Sheep" "Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding").

"According to Barack Obama himself, his mother was his greatest influence in his life. However, little is known about this figure was raised first by his account of the 44th President of the United States. The film's title captures the life of the mother Obama President to fill the missing pieces to this day, "said Mary Aloe, who serves as executive producer under the banner of his production company, Aloe Entertainment . Aloe produced the critically acclaimed Battle Seattle (2007) and production of Mary, Mother of Christ for MGM.

Babette Perry, vice president of broadcasting IMG west coast, which is distributed before the draft, believes he has a huge national and international remedies. "Even the harshest critics of Barack Obama acknowledged that he is unique, if somewhat enigmatic figure – the most famous on the world stage today. People want to know more about him, what he likes, and what is behind his extraordinary rise to success. "

The film reveals the fascinating and often contradictory aspects Dunham life, concluding with his pioneering work in microfinance, also known as microenterprise and microcredit. Dunham who obtained a doctorate in anthropology, University of Hawaii, has opened a way in the emerging field and was one of the first to identify women entrepreneurs in rural areas as key to the success of the movement.

In a commentary published in The New York Times ("dreams of his mother, August 11, 2009) Yale Professor Michael R. Dove saw his ex-colleague Dunham (who later changed his name to her second husband, Soetoro) had the courage in his work: "It should be noted that, despite the micro-enterprises is now fairly well known – and Indonesia is now one of the programs largest in the world of microfinance – was a pretty radical when Ann Soetoro was his work. But then, she used to swim against the tide. While Many American scholars have tried to avoid dealing with the repressive government of Suharto, Ann Soetoro drew attention to the regime failed to benefit: the creators of the population, the plantation workers and urban landfills, low-paid workers shoe and clothing. "

The documentary reveals that when Barack was 10 and lived with his mother, stepfather and sister in Inodenesia, Dunham decided to send his only son to live in Hawaii with their parents (grandparents of Barack) for fear that his work can make politically sensitive endangering their life.Dunham be reunited with his son a year later in Honolulu, where he has continued to increase.

Innovations in microfinance Dunham drew the attention of the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development, which used it for 20-year career. In 1985, when Barack Obama was competing in his political career is first died of uterine cancer in 1995 at the age of 52 years.

"The litmus test for my participation in the project is whether there is enough life achievements Dunham Despite his premature death, and in addition to being the mother Barack, to justify a feature-length documentary. Based on research from producers, no doubt in my mind that his story is to make an interesting film, has said Burnett, who is to govern the project.

Carolyn Schroeder, who with his business partner Greg Ptacek is producing the project, has already worked with Burnett in "The Glass Shield (Miramax, 1994). Ptacek is a studio director and founder and director of marketing headquarters in Los Angeles Festival Downtown Film Festival.

"As a wife and working mother myself, Dunham's refusal to comply with the expectations of their time and not only raise his son in his own words, but to develop a successful career speaks volumes about his own character and values instilled in her son "Said the Chancellor.

Shortly after the publication of his bestselling book of 1995, "Dreams from my father," and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has made the declaration Next on his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham: "I think sometimes, if I had known she would not survive her illness, I could write a book different, less a meditation on the absent father and a celebration more than has been the only constant in my life. In my daughters I see all day, her joy, her capacity for wonder. I will not try to describe how much I still mourn his death. I know it was the most thoughtful, most generous spirit I have known, what is best in me I owe him.