Bel-Air Film Festival Presents its First Triple Crown Winner to Sold out Audience in Park City, Utah

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By Jeremy Reynalds
Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (ANS) -- The Park City screening of “Return to the Hiding Place,” hosted by the Bel-Air Film Festival and A2E, sold out the event.

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According to a news release, there were more than 600 people turned away at the capacity screening on Jan. 18 during the Sundance Film Festival.

Director Peter Spencer was there, along with Producer Petra Spencer Pearce, Co-Director/Editor Josiah Spencer, Co-Producer Jeff Canavan, Associate Producer Anna Armstrong, and the film’s cast members Rachel Spencer-Hewitt, Craig Robert Young, Mimi Sagadin, Kelly Greyson and Joanie Stewart.

“Return to the Hiding Place” is the first movie in the Bel-Air Film Festival’s decade-long history to win in three categories; Best Jury Feature Film, Cinematography and Directing.

The news release said “Return to the Hiding Place” is set in Holland during WWII. It follows the exploits of an army of untrained teenagers who face deadly challenges in the Resistance as they rescue Dutch Jews from the Holocaust.

This multiple award winning film features John Rhys-Davies (Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings), Craig Robert Young (NCIS:LA, Hawaii Five-O), David Thomas Jenkins (CSI:Miami, Bold and the Beautiful), and Rachel Spencer Hewitt (Fly by Night, A Civil War Christmas).

About Peter Spencer

Peter Spencer has won numerous national awards for writing, producing and directing, including his TV series, “Heroes of the Faith,” shown on over 2,000 stations worldwide.

Spence wrote and narrated “Holy Art” in a piece by award-winning international media-artist Christian Jankowsky, which has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York and other museums and galleries throughout the Berlin, Paris and 21 major European capitals.

Spencer has been praised by the New York Times, Washington Post, and L.A. Times for his communication style.

According to the news release, Spencer’s interviews with his mentor, Hans Poley led him to research the Dutch Archives, life histories and survivors of the Hiding Place and their friends. “This created a world immersed in the realities of Holland in the 40’s, inspiring a meticulous, and a realistic script for the … ‘Return to the Hiding Place.’”

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Source: Assist News Service