Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Committee presents:
DEADLINE The Screening
Guinness Theatre, Substation
8 pm. Wednesday, 5th April, 2006
Free Admission.
Deadline is a documentary on Illinois Governor George Ryan, who,
with 60 days left in office, makes a decision on the fate of death
row prisoners. Directors Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson tackle
the volatile topic of the American capital punishment system with
intelligence, compassion and balance. Furthermore, they capture the
extraordinary transformation of one man who holds the power of life
and death in his hands.
Deadline is New York-based Big Mouth Productions sixth
feature-length documentary film and both Johnson and Chevignys
second film. Chevigny's directorial debut was Journey to the West:
Chinese Medicine Today (2002), distributed by Wellspring Media.
Johnson's previous film, Innocent Until Proven Guilty, premiered at
the Berlin International Film Festival in 1999 and was featured on
HBO.
Among other awards, Deadline has won the 2005 Cine Golden Eagle
Special Jury Award, the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award, Best
Feature Documentary and Best Director at the Black Point Film
Festival, Lake Geneva.W!. It has also screened at Amnesty
International Film Festival, Human Rights Watch International Film
Festival and The Independent Film Festival of Boston.
This screening is organized by The Singapore Anti-Death Penalty
Committee, which is a group of concerned individuals who believe
that it is wrong for the state to take someones life. We have
organized this film screening as part of our public outreach. We
hope to show more people the facts and the myths behind the death
penalty.
For more information on the film, please go to
www.deadlinethemovie.com.