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Filmmaker gives up award to appeal denial of Larrañaga pardon

Marty Syjuco honored with Ani ng Dangal award in Philippines

Nuevo paso en la lucha por la libertad de Paco Larrañaga

Basque Parliament urges the central executive to ask Philippines to pardon Paco Larrañaga

New Step in the struggle for freedom of Paco Larrañaga

Marty’s top 10 Documentary List in Town & Country

South China Morning Post: Doc inspires Innocence Project Philippines

Ateneo Screening Feb 1

Details of the Screening of Give Up Tomorrow

Date: Feb. 1, 2013
Time: 4:30 PM – 7 PM
Venues: SEC Lecture Hall 2 (SECB201A), Ching Tan Room (SOM111), CTC 102, CTC 105

For ticket reservations/meet-ups:
Contact Angelli Aquino: 09178551279
Zen Angeles: 09178111206

For Ateneans:
Ticket booth can be found at The New Rizal Library entrance facing the Social Sciences building.
Booth will be open from 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM until Feb. 1, 2013

More updates can be found at www.facebook.com/TurnRights2013

Documentary indicts Philippine justice system

Rappler’s (Some of the) Best movies of 2012

Give Up Tomorrow. No other movie this year has generated much local debate, such as here on Rappler, than this Filipino-American project, which debuted at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival.

Director Michael Collins and producer Marty Syjuco’s compelling essay, about the continued incarceration of Paco Larrañaga and others for the 1997 abduction-disappearance of sisters Jacqueline and Marijoy Chiong, doubles as a hefty glimpse into the confounding ills of the Philippine justice system.

Fresh out on DVD locally, Give Up Tomorrow is not just a riveting, gut-wrenching couple of hours; it is also gifted with a brilliant title, a not-what-you-think line authored by Larrañaga himself that echoes the movie’s own more-than-meets-the-eye thesis.

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