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Fake Papers is a real-life escape story about a Holocaust survivor, who passes on survival lessons to her grandson, a documentary filmmaker working in war zones like Afghanistan. Letty is waiting to die. She is 90 years old and eaten by regret. She once told her story of survival to her grandson to help him through a tragedy when he was a child. Now in his thirties, he rushes to learn the details of her story before it disappears, because in it are answers to questions that have haunted his life. When World War II began, seventeen-year-old Letty from a rigid Orthodox Jewish family in Belgium is trapped in a resort nestled in the French Pyrenees with her mother and two sisters. Her oldest sister disowns the family to save herself as her mother's distress turns into violent panic attacks. Ahead of Letty lay razzias, the French police round-ups of Jews, Nazi aircraft, young love, and uncertainty about who to trust or where to go in a country hell-bent on capturing her. Now her family's fate, whether triumph or catastrophe, hinges on Letty's escape plan. At its core, Fake Papers is about a girl coming of age in a time of brutal intolerance and how it shapes her relationship with her grandson years later, addressing identity, and the tangled emotions and patterns of family relationships, repeated through generations, that make us who we are.

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Aaron Rockett has over 14 years of experience as a Washington, DC filmmaker. Aaron worked for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS before forming www.thefullmonte.com (now aaronrockett.com) in 2004, a website dedicated to reporting on conflict zones around the world. Throughout his travels he has produced numerous independent documentaries and video diaries. His independent short documentary, Vacationing in Afghanistan screened at film festivals, aired on PBS, and now has over a hundred and fifty thousand views online. In addition, Aaron has shot for The History Channel, edited for Deutsche Welle (German Television) and was field producer in Afghanistan for two National Geographic Channel documentary specials, Inside the Taliban, and Inside Al Qaeda. He also edited seven films for USAID in Afghanistan focused on the country's reconstruction effort. In 2008, Aaron directed a feature length documentary film, The Fixer: Afghanistan Behind the Scenes, which was critically received at international film festivals and featured on CNN. Aaron was Executive Producer for Verizon's new cable system, FiOS1, producing a daily half-hour show featuring people, places, and stories in Washington, DC. Aaron has worked years as a video journalist for Verizon and has extensive experience teaching video journalism and editing for the Travel Channel, BBC, and Rosenblum Associates. Previously, Aaron wrote for the Santa Barbara Independent. Aaron holds a master's degree in strategic communication from American University and an undergraduate degree from Saint Mary's College of California.

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