Letter of Thanks from Prof Allen Levy - Chapman University for WAR OF THE WORLDS THE TRUE STORY Screening

April 9, 2013



Dear Timothy:

On behalf of all of us at Chapman University, I want to thank you for your wonderful presentation and the screening of "The War of the Worlds: The True Story." It is not every day that my students get a chance to hear from a working professional, especially one who was as eloquent and persuasive as you were. As you know, I took the occasion to teach my Communication Studies students about how media constructs our view of reality and, by extension, our view of history. Your film was the perfect vehicle for illustrating this idea. It is an astonishing work technically, but, as many of my students pointed out, it also contains an underlying humanism, as we see the humans, in all their frailty, running from the Martians. I wish you well with the film as you near the release date, and I hope you will return to Chapman with many other movies. We had fun, our students learned something, and we saw a great movie. All in all, a fabulous experience. Many thanks.



Allen Levy

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies

Chapman University

Orange, CA

NEW PRESS RELEASE: WAR OF THE WORLDS - THE TRUE STORY

A press release has gone out about my new movie in post production, WAR OF THE WORLDS - THE TRUE STORY. We tried to touch all the bases to let fans get a clear picture of what we are up to. You can read about it in Space Daily amongst other news sources. When we shot the scenes with actor Floyd Reichman in Mukilteo, at the Hogland House, Paul Archiplay from the local Beacon hung around the set one day and did this nice little story on us in his paper.

The new movie is done as a mock documentary that blends fiction and reality, much as Orson Wells did with his famous 1938 radio broadcast. The plot of War of the Worlds - The True Story is that in 1965, a film crew captured the memories of the last living survivor of the war between Earth and Mars that took place at the turn of the twentieth century.

Nothing was done with the footage until, in 2006, it was discovered in the basement vault of a condemned house. Also found in the vault with the interviews, was previously unknown footage of the actual Martian invaders and their machines of war.

The documentary is a motion picture presentation of that eyewitness account.

It's late. That's all for now.

~Later-