Overview
Promises to Keep follows agitator Snyder and the Community for Creative Non-Violence by showing film-fragments, news-bulletin images from records, and newspaper headlines about the fight to force the government to live up to their promise to provide the homeless of Washington D.C. with proper shelter.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film (1989)
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Ginny DurrinScreenplay
- Aviva KempnerScreenplay
- Jim ByrneScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1988
- Original language
- English
Cast
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