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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 9, 2006

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Contact: Cheryl Eagan-Donovan (617) 987-0021

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH

Controversy Films producer Cheryl Eagan-Donovan signed a book option deal today with author Mark Anderson for the right to develop his biography SHAKESPEARE BY ANOTHER NAME: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, The Man Who Was Shakespeare for a new documentary feature, NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH. Based on the De Vere family motto, Vero Nihil Verius, the film seeks to illuminate truth through the life and words of Edward de Vere.

Published by Gotham Books, an imprint of Penguin, in August 2005, SHAKESPEARE BY ANOTHER NAME has received critical acclaim and generated quite a bit of controversy. It takes the position that Oxford is the author and details the myriad parallels between De Vere’s life and the Shakespeare canon. Anderson spent twelve years researching the subject and writing the book Sir Derek Jacobi has called "one of the very best whodunits you will ever read." The paperback edition of the book will be released in August 2006. For more on the book, visit www.shakespearebyanothername.com.

Producer Cheryl Eagan-Donovan studied Shakespeare as a literature major at Goddard College, then discovered De Vere when taking a history course at Harvard University. She pitched the idea for a documentary to ITVS, the funding branch of PBS, and this week Cheryl travels to Castle Hedingham in Essex, ancestral home of the Seventeenth Earl, to attend the Annual De Vere Society Meeting. British historian and scholar Charles Bird will provide a tour of Oxford’s birthplace for the project.

IFP New York sponsors the film. Founded in 1979, the Independent Feature Project helped bring recent indie doc hits like Mad Hot Ballroom to audiences around the world. Tax deductible donations to support NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH may be sent to IFP at 104 West 29th Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY, 10001.

The Controversy Films production team includes ALL KINDSA GIRLS co-producer and VH1 editor Steve Maing, series editor for ESPN’s STORIES FROM RED SOX NATION Chi-Ho Lee, associate producer of NOT A PHOTOGRAPH: THE MISSION OF BURMA STORY, John Suvannavejh, and WIDE AWAKE director of photography Ian Vollmer.

Controversy Films’ first feature, ALL KINDSA GIRLS, the indie doc about the Real Kids, has its Canadian premiere at the North By Northeast Music & Film Festival in Toronto, on June 9th, immediately followed by its European debut at the Filmstock International Film Festival in London on June 12th.

For more information contact Cheryl Eagan-Donovan at eagandonovan@comcast.net or http://www.controversyfilms.com.