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Enemies of War

An investigation of the 1989 assassination of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, Enemies of War unravels the political corruption embedded in El Salvador's civil war.

Premiere Date

January 18, 2001

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Esther Cassidy

Producer

Before making Enemies of War, Cassidy was a coordinating producer of Barbara Kopple’s 1990 Academy Award-winning feature documentary film American Dream, producer with Kopple of the 1997 With Liberty and Justice for All (Part I and II), and co-producer of Civil Rights the Struggle Continues. She was also series associate producer of The Question of Equality, an ITVS documentary series broadcast on PBS stations in the United States, and broadcast and released theatrically in England. In addition, Cassidy was associate producer of the 1995 Sundance Film Festival Audience Choice Award winner, Ballot Measure 9; the 1991 documentary Casting the First Stone, broadcast on P.O.V.; and On the Bridge, acclaimed film director Frank Perry’s documentary film. Cassidy was also consulting producer of the Peabody Award-winning A Healthy Baby Girl, also broadcast on P.O.V. She worked on An American Love Story, the award-winning 1999 American Playhouse documentary series. Currently, Cassidy is producing The Case of Edward Lee Elmore, about an innocent man on South Carolina death row, and The Land of Hope and Freedom, a documentary about the struggle of two immigrant women to free their brother from an unjust detention.
Rob Kuhns

Producer

Rob Kuhns has 15 years of film editing experience. He produced, wrote and directed the half-hour film King’s Day Out, which premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, was broadcast in France, Ireland, Sweden, and on WTTW’s series, Image Union, as well as part of the Dallas Video Festival’s Best of the Decade Series, and at 15 film festivals around the world. Among his many credits are The Politics of Addiction for Bill Moyers, The Rosenberg File: Case Closed (Discovery Channel, Emmy winner for Best Use of Archival Footage) and Adam Clayton Powell (nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1990). As a playwright, his pieces The Flickering Blue Glow and Assassins Have Starry Eyes were performed at the Soho Repertory Theatre Company in New York City. Kuhns has also written a feature screenplay, Double-0 Love.