FREEHELD wins Academy Award

We congratulate Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth on their Academy Award for Freeheld. The film, which follows the historic battle of Lieutenant Laurel Hester, a dying New Jersey police officer who fights to transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree, took home the Oscar for best documentary short at the 80th Academy Awards on February 24th. http://www.oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/?pn=detail&nominee=Freeheld%20-%20Documentary%20Short%20Subject%20Nominee