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"Walt & El Guapo"
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"Walt And El Guapo" - In Movie Theaters September 11, 2009

"Walt And El Guapo" - "Walt Disney goes South American," proclaimed the lobby poster for the 1942 film "Saludos Amigos." It was an era when Washington called on Hollywood to help shore up relations between the Americas, and the film was the outcome of a trip Walt Disney and a hand-picked mini studio made to Brazil, Argentina, Chile and other nations of the region at the request of the U.S. president.

It was also a time that Walt Disney would later recall as "the toughest period I've had in my whole life." (And think about current 2009 Cambridge, MA policeman Crowley, HA!). Walt Disney's studio was going through great difficulties , the Roosevelt administration had growing concerns about Nazi and Facist influence in Latin America, and the entire world was slipping further into war. On the trip, while gathering story matrial, and befriending fellow artists, Walt Disney and 'El Guapo' as they were called at the time, were also embarked on a de facto diplomatic mission, and "Saludos Amigos" carried the expectation of being an offering of inter-American friendship.

It is a story that still resonates on both sides of the equator. Drawing, pun intended, from personal files and letters and artwork from the trip, rememberences by decendants and survivors, and archival footage that provides candid and never before seen glimpses of Walt Disney and his artists, the movie "Walt & El Grupo" time travels through five nations to capture a story that is both a tale of making art in a time of war and a geo polictical saga that has pressing relevance to our current times.

STARRING: Walt Disney
DIRECTOR: Thomas and Kuniko Okubo
STUDIO: Walt Disney
RATING: G
THEATER COUNT (Opening Weekend): TBD
RUNNING TIME: TBD
TOTAL DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: TBD
U.S. DVD RELEASE DATE: TBD

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