Jeremiah Films

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Jeremiah Films is a low-budget production company headed by Christian conservative activist Patrick Matrisciana, based in Westminster, California.

Jeremiah Films produces videos that the group says promotes patriotism, traditional values, family values and the "biblical worldview of the founding fathers" of the United States. It has produced films critical of subjects as varied as evolution, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, Harry Potter, stem cell research, Hallowe'en, homosexuality, and the Clinton Presidency. The company produces videos such as Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged about the "repackaging of Witchcraft in probably its most dangerous form - children's fantasy literature", Baby Parts For Sale, an "investigation into the multi-million dollar a year baby parts trafficking industry" and stem cell research, and Halloween: Trick or Treat? that challenges parents "to decide whether to allow their children to participate in celebrations which glorify Pagan Occultism". The company also produced and distributes the videos AIDS: What You Haven't Been Told investigating the "homosexual cover-up" and Gay Rights Special Rights both of which were briefly banned in New Zealand.

In 1996, Patrick Matrisciana, the founder of Jeremiah Films and an organization called Citizens for an Honest Government, produced a video called Obstruction of Justice: The Mena Connection. In it he claimed that two police officers with links to then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton were implicated in drug trafficking, two murders, and a cover-up of the murders. The police officers sued Matrisciana for defamation and won an award of $598,750. In 2001, the award was overturned after Matrisciana appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit [1]. Although he won the case on First Amendment grounds, the Court was not uncritical of Matrisciana: "However, to say that Matrisciana did not cross the line into public figure libel is not to say he stayed within the bounds of ethics and fairness. . . . That Lieutenants Campbell and Lane have failed to disprove the disputed statements at the requisite levels should not undermine their accomplishments nor diminish their stature."[2]