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The 35the Mill Valley Film Festival where The Missing Piece had its U.S. Premiere
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The magnificent San Rafael theater in San Rafael, CA, the scene of our premiere.
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Our first screening was sold out! (That's what trhe red dot means.)
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Director Joe Medeiros (l) & Producer Justine Mestichelli-Medeiros (r) with Mill Valley Festival programmer Kelly Clement (c), the man who was instrumental in bringing The Missing Piece to Mill Valley.
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The Medeiroses with the talented and intrepid Associate Producer/Senior Researcher & Translator Eileen White at The Missing Piece premiere.
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Nothing says your film is real more than seeing its poster in the glass case by the box office.
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Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the Mona Lisa, made the MVFF ad. (He's 3rd from left next to Dustin Hoffman.)
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The also-magnificent Sequoia Theater in Mill Valley, scene of our screening on October 8 -- the anniversary of Peruggia's birth.