TPI Launches new docu-drama feature film: "RUN OR DIE: THE FERNANDO ARAUJO STORY"

TPI has just launched an intriguing new film titled “Run or Die: The Fernando Araujo Story.”
 
Over the last decade, no country has been terrorized more by kidnapping than Colombia. Guerillas from the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, have abducted thousands of people into the jungle -- where escape was considered impossible and rescue missions always failed.
 
But on the morning of January 5, 2007, everything changed. 
 
A ragged, gaunt and sunburned man staggered out of the Montes de Maria wilderness and identified himself as Fernando Araujo, the long-lost former minister of economic development, who was kidnapped by the FARC in December, 2000.   His near-miraculous escape made headlines around the world because Fernando was the first high-profile hostage to break free from the FARC and live to tell about it.   Within weeks of his homecoming, Fernando Araujo made the headlines again when he was appointed foreign minister of Colombia and began traveling the world to advocate for the freedom of hostages everywhere.
 
Now, after two years in the making, TPI brings to the screen “Run or Die: The Fernando Araujo Story”, a true-life tale of kidnapping, survival, betrayal, escape, and triumph.
 
Filmed in high definition on location in Cartagena, Bogota and in the jungles of northern Colombia, “Run or Die” is a 90-minute docudrama narrated, in part, by Fernando Araujo himself, with dramatic recreations of his shocking abduction, brutal captivity, and harrowing escape from FARC guerillas.
 
Directed by Bogota filmmaker Klych Lopez, a winner of TNT’s “Project 48” competition, “Run or Die” features Colombian actor Hernan Lopez, as Fernando Araujo.  Maria Adelaida Puerta, well-known for her leading role in the hit telenovela series “Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso”, portrays Monica, the wife of Fernando who agonizes over the future of her marriage to a man who may never return home alive.
 
“Run or Die: The Fernando Araujo Story” recently premiered on Colombia's Caracol TV with a prime-time broadcast earning nearly a 30 audience share.  The film is now being made available to broadcasters worldwide.  Available in both Spanish and English versions.
  
For Licensing Inquiries, contact:
 
Ron Alexander
Director of International Sales
Email:  ralexander@tpiltd.com