"A gutsy and startlingly balanced take on the events of that day in February 1996. A documentary about an inexcusable but also prevantable crime, leaves us with hope."—Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

Produced and directed by Entertaining Ideas principals Douglas Eger and Cristina Khuly (Producer and Director, respectively), Shoot Down explores one of the defining incidents in Cuban–American history from the unsafe distance of a first-generation Cuban American. “You know you have done your job as a documentarian when every political extreme vehemently disagrees with you.”

On February 24, 1996, the Cuban government authorized two military fighter jets to attack and destroy an unarmed civilian American aircraft over international waters. In the tragic aftermath, four Americans were dead, U.S.–Cuban relations once again lay in tatters, a burgeoning and promising human rights movement in Cuba was crushed, and an unlikely heroine, Maggie Khuly, would lead the victims’ families on a 10-year struggle to piece together what really happened and why.

Winner of the 2007 Sonoma Film Festival Award for Best Documentary, Shoot Down is the first feature-length film to tell the true and complex story behind one of the most pivotal events in U.S.–Cuba relations. It is a story of diplomatic relations, human rights, the fortitude of family, and the dogged passion ignited by the search for truth and freedom. Shoot Down was theatrically released in 2008 and is among the top-grossing political documentaries of all time.