Katyn
Exclusive Canadian Broadcast on OMNI.1
Katyn
Directed by Honourary Academy Award Winner Andrzej Wajda
Special 2 ½ Hour Bilingual (Polish and English-subtitles) Presentation
Saturday, April 24th at 6PM ET on OMNI.1
April 22, 2010 – Toronto, ON – To mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre and honour its approximately 22,000 victims OMNI Television is again privileged to present special memorial programming.
OMNI.1 will air a special two-and-a-half hour presentation of the multiple award-winning E1 Entertainment film, Katyn this Saturday, April, 24th starting at 6:00 p.m. EDT, in place of regularly scheduled language programming.
“OMNI recognizes the poignant importance of this film which carries such historical significance and we are pleased to broadcast Katyn at this time,” says Madeline Ziniak, National Vice President of OMNI Television. “We are delighted that in concert with the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Canada, Zenon Kosiniak-Kamysz; and the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Toronto, Marek Ciesielczuk; along with E1 Entertainment, OMNI is able to share this story and help create awareness for those who aren’t familiar with this period in history.”
Based on the book, Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk, the movie Katyn tells the story, through the eyes of the mothers, wives and daughters, of Polish officers murdered during WWII and their families who, unaware of the crime, were still waiting for their loved ones to return.
The film includes excerpts from German newsreels presenting the Katyn massacre as a Soviet crime, and excerpts from Soviet newsreels presenting the massacre as a German crime. Documentary footage of the scene of the massacre is also shown.
Katyn was made under the honorary patronage of the President of Polish Republic Lech Kaczyński and his wife Mrs. Maria Kaczyńska, both of whom perished along with 94 other Polish political and military officials, when their plane crashed in thick fog near Smolensk – approximately 19 kilometres (12 miles) west of Katyn forest -- in western Russia on April 10th, 2010. They had been heading to the Katyn forest to mark the 70th anniversary of the massacre.
About OMNI Television
OMNI™ is a free, over-the-air multilingual/multicultural television system committed to positive portrayal and broadcast reflection of Canada’s diversity through the airing of inclusive and accessible programming. With five television stations -- in BC; Alberta (Calgary and Edmonton) and Ontario (OMNI.1 and OMNI.2) – OMNI reaches more than 23 million people in major market areas. As well as specializing in Canadian multilingual/ multicultural programming, OMNI carries well-known International series and films – including East Asian Super Cinema and South Asian Bollywood Freetime Movies. OMNI Television is a part of Rogers Broadcasting Limited., a division of Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI and NYSE: RCI) which is a diversified Canadian communications and media company. For more information visit www.OMNItv.ca
About E1 Entertainment
E1 Entertainment (AIM: ETO) is a leading independent entertainment content enterprise that acquires and exploits world-class film, television and music properties around the globe. Its four primary businesses units (E1 Television, E1 Films, E1 Music and E1 Distribution) operate in Canada, the U.S., the UK and Ireland, France, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands and Belgium, providing extensive expertise in film distribution, television and music production and distribution, kids programming, and merchandising and licensing. E1's growing content library, which currently includes more than 4,000 feature films, 2,700 hours of original television programming and 15,000 music tracks, is distributed across all media formats in more than 190 countries.
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