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Check it out — and for the record, I make no promises about the film being good or not, I am simply repeating the hype of its Oscar worthiness.

Audiences across the country will get a rare inside look into the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).  “Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders LIVE with Elizabeth Vargas” is an exclusive, one-night only event, which will be broadcast via satellite from New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts to thousands of Americans seated in nearly 450 movie theaters across the country.

Doctors Without Borders gave a documentary crew unlimited and uncensored access to its field operations in war-torn Congo and post-conflict Liberia. “Living in Emergency,” the critically acclaimed documentary that is “short listed” for a 2010 Oscar nomination, interweaves the stories of four doctors who are forced to confront the limits of their idealism in the face of overwhelming medical needs. Following the documentary, Elizabeth Vargas, anchor of ABC News 20/20, will moderate a LIVE town-hall discussion with doctors featured in the film and award-winning journalists, including Sebastian Junger, best-selling author of The Perfect Storm and Vanity Fair contributing editor.

WHEN/WHERE/COST:
DATE:                Monday, December 14, 2009

TIME:                7:30 p.m. Eastern

LOCATIONS:

National Amusements-Lowell Showcase Cinemas, 32 Reiss Avenue, Lowell

Regal-Fenway 13, 201 Brookline Avenue, Boston
AMC-Braintree 10, 121 Grandview Avenue, Braintree
AMC-Burlington 10, 20 South Avenue, Burlington
National Amusements-Legacy Palace, 670 Legacy Place, Dedham
AMC-Framingham 15, 22 Flutie Pass, Framingham
Regal-Solomon Pond Mall 15, 591 Donald Lunch Blvd., Marlborough
National Amusements -Balckstone Valley, 70 Worcester Providence Tpke, Millbury
National Amusements -Randolph Showcase Cinemas, 73 Mazzeo Drive, Randolph
National Amusements -Revere Showcase Cinemas, 565 Squire Road, Revere

COST:                $12.50 (subject to change)

TICKETS:        To purchase tickets, www.FathomEvents.com/doctorswithoutborders

Media Contact – Doctors Without Borders:
Lorna Chiu, 310.200.8388, lorna.chiu@msf.org

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people whose survival is threatened by violence, negligence, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, natural disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 60 countries.  For more information, visit www.doctorswithoutborders.org.