Category Archives: Press

Carlos Celdran Review – Manila Premiere

Damning documentary on injustice comes home to Cinemalaya

RIALTO CHANNEL 25 – EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL COLLINS

Give up tomorrow: crónica de un inocente en el corredor de la muerte

Video interview in San Sebastian by arteUParte magazine

Radio interview with Spanish Translation

Variety: Give Up Tomorrow Wins Audience Award in LA

L.A. Asian Pacific fest bestows prizes

By: Jon Weisman
Published: Wed, May 23, 2012, 10:05 PM
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“Two Shadows,” directed by Greg Cahill, won the audience award for feature-length narrative at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

Michael Collins’ “Give Up Tomorrow” earned the audience prize for documentary film at the fest, which wrapped May 20 and presented by Visual Communications.

“We’re very pleased to recognize these two outstanding productions from among a very stellar selection of feature-length works this year,” festival senior programmer Abraham Ferrer said. “More and more, the stories being presented at the Film Festival reflect a larger world-view and desire for engagement with audiences from all walks of life. ‘Two Shadows’ and ‘Give Up Tomorrow’ both accomplish those objectives in dramatic ways, and succeeded in connecting with festival audiences.”

“Shadows” told the story of a Long Beach hipster who received a cryptic letter from Cambodia claiming that her brother and sister, believed to have perished in civil war 20 years earlier, were still alive, causing her to return home to a threatening situation of her own.

“Give Up” exposed corrupt public officials in a backdrop to the struggle two mothers undertook over the fate of one young man.

Posted: Wed, May 23, 2012, 10:05 PM

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Review in Spain – “Ríndete Mañana”

Here is the English translation

Orlando Weekly: 4 Stars – “nothing short of jaw-dropping”

 

Give Up Tomorrow (4 Stars) Following, with remarkable depth, clarity and conviction, the 14-year saga of Paco Larrañaga and six other seemingly innocent men who were convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping, rape and murder of two teen sisters in 1997 in the Philippines, filmmaker Michael Collins assembles a crack team of journalists and others involved in the case and deconstructs the case against them until it appears to be completely fabricated. The fallout, as portrayed by Collins, is nothing short of jaw-dropping; it’s a media circus that pulls in the likes of presidents, kings, Congress, the U.N. Human Rights Commission, drug lords and their puppets (some of whom may be the victims’ overzealous, spirit-channeling parents), news magazines and TV hosts, and a judge at least as cartoonish as Belvin Perry. The tone is solemn but thorough, finding a natural balance somewhere between the metaphysical obsessions of Werner Herzog and the reactionary zest of Errol Morris. – By Justin Strout (7:15 p.m. at Regal Winter Park)

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Interview with Japanese Magazine COOL-NY

http://www.cool-ny.com/en/archives/871