Press Release PO Box 1138 Vashon, WA 98070 206-437-0725 <(206)%20437-0725> Website: davidserko.com Contact Info: Peter Serko peter@peterserko.com ------------------------------ For Immediate Release End Date: July 24, 2017Premiere “Footnote” A Documentary Film Directed by Peter Serko Seattle, WA - Based on his solo performance play “My Brother Kissed Mark Zuckerberg” Peter Serko makes his filmmaking debut with “Footnote” at the 2017 Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival July 23rd @ 7:00 pm. “Footnote” traces the remarkable 26 year journey of a photograph, a final wish, and a promise, demonstrating the enduring power of love, and the capacity of four simple words to heal and inspire. July 23rd 7:00 pm Factory Luxe (Old Rainier Brewery) 3100 Airport Way South Seattle, WA 98134 Tickets <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/footnote-3-great-short-films-stiff-2017-tickets-35671230611> Synopsis: In 1992 the AIDS epidemic is raging uncontrolled in the US with almost 200,000 deaths to date. David Serko, age 32, is among those who tragically die that year. Peter, his older brother, is at David's bedside the moment he takes his last breath. In their final conversation David makes one last request of Peter: “listen to your heart”. Devastated by David's death yet inspired and challenged by his request, Peter vows to one day tell the story David’s remarkable life and and even more remarkable death. Twenty years pass before Peter is able to make good on that promise. In 2012 he starts The David Serko Project with the goal of learning more about David's life by finding people who knew him. Using social media Peter locates and engages over 100 people who knew David, most he didn't know. The Project ends up revealing hundreds of anecdotes, recollections and other stories about David, along with photographs, audio recordings, video and other memorabilia. However, one discovery early in the life of the Project stands apart from all others. Almost by chance Peter finds a footnote in a Wikipedia article that leads to a previously unknown photograph of David being arrested by the New York City police at protest in 1988. The photograph takes on a life of its own prompting a series of other discoveries including finding and meeting the photographer who took that arrest photo. With no theatrical background or experience Peter writes a solo performance play based on the Project and begins performing it in 2014. He then takes the play back to his home town to a theater where David performed early in his career. Among those in the audience that night is the photographer who took the arrest photo in 1988, camera in hand. ### -- * Peter Serko* *Find out more about my documentary film FOOTNOTE <http://davidserko.com/>* *My website: peterserko.com <http://peterserko.com/>*