#11. Give Up Tomorrow – Michael Collins
If we go by this article, Michael Collins’ Give Up Tomorrow would appear primed and ready for the festival. Working alongside editor Eric Daniel Metzgar (his film Reporter preemed at Sundance in 2009), this documentary film has received support from Tribeca All Access program, the Sundance Institute’s summer Documentary Edit and Story Lab, and more recently IFP’s 2010 Independent Filmmaker Labs.
On a stormy night in July 1997, Marijoy and Jackie Chiong, two young girls waiting for a ride at a shopping mall, disappear without a trace…Simultaneously a murder-mystery and an exposé of endemic corruption in the Philippines today, Give Up Tomorrow looks intimately at the trial of Paco Larrañaga, a Spanish mestizo student accused of killing two Chinese-Filipino sisters on the provincial island of Cebu. Secret filming from Paco’s cell in Bilibid Prison exposes the appalling conditions of a prison system stretched to breaking point.
* Producers: Michael Collins and Marty Syjuco
(IONCINEMA.com Preview Page // IMDB Link)
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