PATCHOGUE, NY – OCTOBER 20, 2006 – Straight from the Australian International Film Festival, Dr. Blake Kerr will be heading to the Patchogue Campus of St. Joseph’s College to screen his award-winning documentary directed by Casey Earl, “The Angry Skies: A Cambodian Journey,” on Monday, November 13, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. The documentary, which travels with Dr. Kerr to Cambodia to interview survivors, witnesses and enforcers of the massacre from 1975-1979, when almost two million Cambodians were tortured and slaughtered under the Khmer Rouge, or Red Khmer, communist regime.

In March 2006, “The Angry Skies” won Best Political Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles, California. Since then, Dr. Kerr has taken his film on a tour around the nation to educate college students about the atrocities that took place overseas during this time period, and also to foreshadow possible similar situations in the future concerning the United States and Iraq. Dr. Kerr believes that the genocide that occurred in Cambodia was a direct result of U.S. bombing during the Vietnam War and that parallels can be drawn between Iraq and Cambodia.

Since the film’s premiere at the 2004 Hamptons Film Festival, it has not been screened on Long Island. Dr. Kerr, a doctor who runs a walk-in clinic in Wainscott, New York, is now bringing his film back to exhibit and speak about the consequences of a war-torn nation. The film will be shown in the McGann Conference Room on the Patchogue Campus of St. Joseph’s College. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call (631) 447-3325 or visit www.sjcny.edu.

St. Joseph’s College is located at 155 W. Roe Blvd. in Patchogue, and is accessible via the South Service Road of Sunrise Highway, just east of Exit 52 (Waverly Ave.).

About St. Joseph's College

St. Joseph’s College has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the College provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility, and service. With campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn and in Patchogue, Long Island, the College offers degrees in numerous majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs through its School of Arts and Sciences and its School of Professional and Graduate Studies.