Events
Free Preview Screening of PBS Documentary NO TOMORROW
*September 2, 2010
7pm
*Carolina Theatre of Durham
309 West Morgan Street
Durham, NC 27701-2119
To see the trailer of the film please follow this link: http://www.pppdocs.com./notomorrowtrailer.html. (Warning--the trailer contains very graphic images!)
NO TOMORROW
is produced and directed by Roger Weisberg and Vanessa Roth, the filmmakers that created AGING OUT. Weisberg’s 30 previous films have earned over 100 awards, including Emmy, duPont-Columbia, and Peabody awards, as well as two Academy Award nominations (in 2001 for SOUND AND FURY and in 2003 for WHY CAN’T WE BE A FAMILY AGAIN?). Vanessa Roth is an Academy Award, duPont-Columbia, and Sundance award-winning filmmaker. Some of her films include TAKEN IN: THE LIVES OF AMERICA’S FOSTER CHILDREN, CLOSE TO HOME, THE THIRD MONDAY IN OCTOBER, FREEHELD, and the upcoming TEACHER SALARY PROJECT.
from the filmakers:
NO TOMORROW focuses on the murder of Risa Bejarano, the principle subject of AGING OUT, our recent film about teenagers leaving foster care. NO TOMORROW explores how a film about Risa’s last year of life unexpectedly became the centerpiece of a homicide investigation and a trial that would determine whether the alleged killer would live or die.
Ironically, we created AGING OUT in order to illustrate how difficult it is for teenagers to overcome the scars of abuse and neglect. Now we were confronted with the prospect that our film helped convince a jury to give the death penalty to a young man who had suffered the same traumatic childhood experiences as Risa Bejarano in AGING OUT. Having failed to protect Chavez as a child, and having failed to protect the community from his violent behavior as a teenager, the state is now poised to execute him. By painting an intimate portrait of the tragic end of two young lives, NO TOMORROW provides a dramatic window into the complexity and controversy surrounding capital punishment.