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Give Up Tomorrow

  • Director(s):
    Michael Collins
    Producer(s):
    Marty Syjuco
    • United States, United Kingdom
    • 2011
    • 95 min
    • HDCAM 1080/23.98p
    • English, Spanish, Filipino

When the Chiong sisters were raped and murdered on an island in the Philippines in 1997, the police were under pressure to act fast. And they did – soon they had arrested seven young men, and charged them with the horrendous crime, to the gratitude of a public baying for blood. Amongst them was Paco Larranaga, a Filipino-Spanish student training to be a chef. In fact, he sat for exams on the very day the girls were abducted, 350 miles away. Despite 42 witnesses signing affidavits as to his whereabouts, the police interviewed none of them and Paco found himself locked up and sentenced to death, depicted as an over privileged thug by the public and media. Paco’s devastated family began a long campaign for justice, which was eventually taken up by human rights groups and authorities in Spain. Director Michael Collins skilfully tells the many twists and turns of Paco’s story, in the process exposing the farcical sham that constitutes Filipino justice.

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Strands

Official Website:
http://www.giveuptomorrow.com/
Festivals:
Tribeca Film Festival 2011, Hot Docs 2011
Awards:
Audience Award, Tribeca Film Festival
Best New Documentary Director, Special Jury Prize, Tribeca Film Festival

Credits

Cinematographer:
Joshua Weinstein, Michael Collins 
Commissioning Editor:
Claire Aguilar, Nick Fraser, Mette Hoffmann Meyer 
Composer:
Adam Crystal 
Editor:
Michael Collins, Eric Daniel Metzgar 
Executive Producer:
Ramona Diaz, Eric Daniel Metzgar 

Director Filmography

  • 2010, Gerthy's Roots
  • 2005, Caught in an Injustice (Atrapado en injusticia)

Contact

Marty Syjuco

Producer

Thoughtful Robot Productions

marty@thoughtfulrobot.com

+1 9173346395