Description: FINDING OSCAR is a feature-length documentary about the search for justice in the case of the Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala in 1982. That search leads to the trail of two little boys, Oscar and Ramiro, who were abducted during the slaughter and raised by some of the very soldiers who’d murdered their families. These boys offer the only living evidence that ties the Guatemalan government to the massacre. The film follows the men and women who have spent nearly two decades looking for answers—from the human-rights worker who first heard the story to the forensic anthropologists trying to identify victims and contact families. The documentary profiles the young Guatemalan prosecutor who took on her own government, and the U.S. immigration agents who began rounding up war criminals found living in the States. In a country built on impunity, it will take this dedicated team to find justice more than thirty years later, and uncover a truth more significant than anyone could have imagined.
Biography: Ryan Suffern, Head of Documentaries at The Kennedy/Marshall Company worked on the projects that address issues such as climate change, the LGBT community and child refugees. He and Frank Marshall have collaborated on three commissioned documentaries for ESPN Films. Prior to his start at Kennedy/Marshall, Suffern documented the behind-the-scenes of four Steven Spielberg films. Under his own banner, Suckatash Productions, Suffern has directed and produced a host of music videos, documentaries and web series for the likes of Paramount Pictures, Universal Music and Beggars Banquet. Ryan is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America.
Frank
Marshall’s movies have been nominated for a multitude of
Academy Awards, including Best Picture nominations for films Raiders
of the Lost Ark, The Color Purple, Seabiscuit and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Marshall has garnered
wide acclaim as a film director, having brought to the screen movies
as Arachnophobia, Alive and Eight Below. Recent
projects include Jurassic World, Steven Spielberg’s The
BFG, Jason Bourne and Clint Eastwood’s Sully. In
the documentary space, Marshall has produced such projects as Martin
Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, Alex Gibney’s The Armstrong
Lie and the Frank Sinatra documentary miniseries for HBO.
Scott Greathead is a partner in the New York City office of Wiggin and Dana LLP, where he practices commercial litigation. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights), which he co-founded in 1978. He has visited more than a dozen countries on human rights fact-finding missions for Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch and other organizations. Since 1982, he has represented the families of four American churchwomen who were murdered in El Salvador in December, 1980. He also represented U.S. Jesuit organizations in connection with the November, 1989 murders of six Jesuits and two members of their household staff by elements of the Salvadoran army. Greathead’s writing on international human rights has appeared in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation and other publications. He has appeared on the ABC news program Nightline, and served as a consultant to 60 Minutes in its report on the Jesuit murders in El Salvador, which was first broadcast in April, 1990. His work on the churchwomen’s case was featured in the 2002 PBS documentary Justice and The Generals. From 1984 to 1990, Greathead served as the First Assistant Attorney General of New York State. He is a graduate of Princeton University and University of Virginia School of Law.
