California Documentary Filmmaker Facing Censorship Challenge From California Coastal Commission

California Documentary Filmmaker Facing Censorship Challenge From California Coastal Commission

LOS ANGELES, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- SINS OF COMMISSION, an award winning documentary film by Southern California filmmaker Richard Oshen, is facing legal action by the California Coastal Commission, which has in fact just served Mr. Oshen with a subpoena in order to obtain a copy of the film.

The revealing expose follows ordinary citizens who have come up against the unelected Commission's autocratic actions wielded, surprisingly, without accountability or oversight. According to director Oshen, "The California Coastal Commission may try to silence the film because it reveals strong links between California's increasingly catastrophic wildfires and the Coastal Commission's prohibition of critical brush clearance."

SINS OF COMMISSION examines decades of the Commission's land use policies and questions how a government body could and, indeed did, unilaterally extend its jurisdiction from 1000 yards landward of the coastline to 5 miles inland. Scores of California families and individual landowners have been required to forfeit their constitutional and property rights as a condition for residential development, and in many cases, to avoid arrest and fines reaching the millions.

Oshen said, "No matter what your politics, this isn't America if a quasi-governmental body is going to dictate whether you have the right to see a film."

The film's website is http://www.sinsofcommission.com/, and is produced by Pacific Coast Highway Productions.

Source: Pacific Coast Highway Productions

CONTACT: Richard Oshen, Director of Pacific Coast Highway Productions,
+1-909-547-6262, pchpfilm@gmail.com; or Courtney Frieh of Diepenbrock
Harrison, +1-916-492-5000, cfrieh@diepenbrock.com, for Pacific Coast Highway
Productions

Web Site: http://www.sinsofcommission.com/

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