Entrepreneur Master P Featured at Lightning Strikes BlogTalkRadio.com Debut

AUSTIN, Texas - Forbes Magazine cover entrepreneur, New Orleans native Master P., along with acclaimed documentary film director Alex LeMay are featured on the debut broadcast of the new BlogTalkRadio.com live, call-in program on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. EST.

The two guests will be interviewed about their new film "Desert Bayou," which opened across the United States this past weekend.

The feature length documentary tells the story of the 600 African Americans who were airlifted out of New Orleans after the floods, shipped to Utah without their knowledge, subjected to three identity checks and then housed at an isolated military base. Although the people flown to Utah were a small percentage of those displaced — estimates are between 645,000 and 1 million — their story is emblematic of some painful truths about race, religion and poverty in America. The documentary features Master P, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and families displaced by the storm.

"For all of us whose loved ones and friends suffered through Katrina, 'Desert Bayou' is another reminder of how badly our government failed the citizens of New Orleans - and how much we need to do," says New Orleans native Donna Brazile, the political commentator and Gore 2000 campaign manager. Brazile shared the story of her search for her New Orleans-based family in the wake of the hurricane in a 2006 Vanity Fair article.

On Wednesday, October 24, 2007, Brazile, The American Civil Liberty Union, Appleseed and The Raben Group are co-hosting an advance screening of the film in Washington D.C.

"Percy 'Master P' Miller uses his celebrity to bring much needed attention to 'Desert Bayou,' an important film that gives us a unique look at race relations in America and the impact Hurricane Katrina had on the community and culture of New Orleans," says Vicangelo Bulluck, the Executive Director of NAACP Hollywood Bureau. He adds, "It serves as a reminder that many of those who were displaced will never find their way back home."

The film began its theatrical release on October 5, 2007 in New York City, which was proclaimed "Desert Bayou Day" by City Council members in recognition of the humanitarian cause the film takes on for the people of New Orleans. It was the highest grossing film to run at the Village East theatre that weekend. The film is rolling out in nationwide limited platform release and will start October 26th, 2007 in Washington DC at AMC/Lowes Dupont 5. Cinema Libre Studio is theatrically distributing the film nationwide in a limited platform release in association with Taproot Productions, Take A Stand Films and Processing Production.

Cinema Libre Studio — is a Los Angeles based production/distribution company known for distributing social issues films including 'OutFoxed," "Uncovered: The War on Iraq," and "Giuliani Time." The company is currently producing a feature length documentary on global poverty. For more information, visit http://www.cinemalibrestudio.com/.

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