Please email Linnea Goderstad at linnea@firstrunfeatures.com with press inquiries.

PRESS MATERIALS

Photograph courtesy of Daniel T. Magidson

Quick Links:
01 Overview and Contacts
02 Written Materials / Reviews
03 Images and Stills
04 Video
05 Personnel / Credits

Overview
Running time: 83 minutes
720p, 16:9
Director: Chad Freidrichs
Written by: Chad Freidrichs, Jaime Freidrichs
Producers: Chad Freidrichs, Jaime Freidrichs, Brian Woodman, Paul Fehler
Original Score by: Benjamin Balcom

SITE LINKS:
• Film Screenings
• Blog and Updates (RSS Feed)

CONTACTS:
Booking Paul Marchant: mailto:paul@firstrunfeatures.com
Press Linnea Goderstad: linnea@firstrunfeatures.com
Director Chad Freidrichs: chad@pruitt-igoe.com
Producer Paul Fehler: paul@pruitt-igoe.com
Producer Jaime Freidrichs: jaime@pruitt-igoe.com
Producer Brian Woodman: brian@pruitt-igoe.com

Written Materials
FILM SUMMARIES:
Film synopses in 50, 100, 250, and 1000 word lengths [PDF, Plain Text]

REVIEWS:
Variety review by Robert Koehler
New Yorker review by Michael Sragow
New York Times "Art & Design" section; by Michael Kimmelman
indieWIRE review by Eric Kohn
AMC FilmCritic.com review by Chris Barsanti
PopMatters review by Cynthia Fuchs
Icon review by Tim Maly

PRESS RELEASES:
February 22, 2011 Press release announcing True/False Film Festival [PDF]
February 16, 2011 Missouri History Museum press release announcing St. Louis screening, April 9th [PDF, HTML]
January 12, 2011 Press release announcing Oxford and Big Sky Film Festivals [PDF]

Images and Stills
PRESS IMAGES
The following images are available in two sizes; "Large" images are around 1500px, and 350kB, "Very Large" images are around 3000px and 1200kB. All images are available at higher resolution TIFFs if needed, email us if you require them. You can preview all images at our Flickr account, or download all "Large images" (2.4mb ZIP), or all "Very Large images" (13.9mb ZIP).

"The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" Movie Poster [Thumb – Large – Very Large – PDF]
Iconic P-I Implosion Photograph [Thumb – Large – Very Large]
Aerial View of Pruitt-Igoe [Thumb – Large – Very Large]
Half-Demolished Building [Thumb – Large – Very Large]
Architectural Model of Pruitt-Igoe [Thumb – Large – Very Large]
USGS Airphoto of Pruitt-Igoe and Environs [Thumb – Large – Very Large]
Child Sitting in Pruitt-Igoe [Thumb – Large – Very Large]
Site-Plan/Blueprints of Pruitt-Igoe [Thumb – Large – Very Large]

SCREENING POSTCARD:
Large JPEG (Web)
• Front (181kB jpeg)
• Back (172kB jpeg)
Very Large JPEG (Print)
• Front (1182kB jpeg)
• Back (1292kB jpeg)

FILM STILLS
All film stills taken at native 720p resolution. Preview all film stills at our Flickr account or download all stills as a ZIP file (8.1mb ZIP). Here are a few:
Walking in Pruitt-Igoe
Walking in Pruitt-Igoe II
Make Pruitt-Igoe #1
Pruitt-Igoe Wide Shot
Unbreakable Items Designed for Pruitt-Igoe
Slum Clearance in St. Louis
Arch Construction with Pruitt-Igoe in Background
Children on Empty Pruitt-Igoe Site

Video
Film Trailer:
HD:
• Apple/iTunes Movie Trailer site
Embeddable/Web
• Vimeo
• YouTube

Press clips are available. Please contact Linnea Goderstad at First Run Features for more information.

Personnel
FULL CREDITS:
Directed by:
Chad Freidrichs
Produced by
Chad Freidrichs
Jaime Freidrichs
Paul Fehler
Brian Woodman
Script by
Chad and Jaime Freidrichs
Music by
Benjamin Balcom
Narrator
Jason Henry
Interviews
Sylvester Brown
Robert Fishman
Joseph Heathcott
Brian King
Joyce Ladner
Ruby Russell
Valerie Sills
Jacquelyn Williams

HIGH-RES HEADSHOTS:
Director
• Chad Freidrichs
Producers
• Paul Fehler
• Jaime Freidrichs
• Brian Woodman

NARRATION:

Jason Henry Narrator Jason Henry is an actor, voice talent and print model represented by the TalentPlus agency. Mr. Henry was born and raised in East St. Louis, IL, just across the river from the Pruitt-Igoe site. He is a loving husband and father of four.

PRODUCER'S BIOS:
(For info on Director Chad Freidrichs, please see Director's Bio page

Paul Fehler Producer Paul Fehler and Chad Freidrichs became friends in Eighth Grade, when an alphabetical seating chart placed them in the same row in gym class. He has been helping Chad make films for almost as long. He was a producer on Freidrichs’ previous two feature length documentaries, Jandek on Corwood and First Impersonator. Mr. Fehler lives in an apartment in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri and has one pet.

Jaime Freidrichs Jaime Freidrichs served as an associate producer on Chad Freidrichs' previous two films, Jandek on Corwood and First Impersonator. In addition to her role as a producer of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History, Jaime co-wrote the film's script.

Brian Woodman Producer Brian Woodman received his Ph.D. in Film/Media Studies from the University of Kansas. He has worked with film collections in several archives around the U.S., and for the past few years he has served as the Documentary Co-Curator for the St. Louis International Film Festival. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is Brian's first film with Chad, Jaime, and Paul.