Fwd: Fw: Funding Needed to Complete Film on Youth Sentenced to Life Without Parole

[Walter Davis]

Los Angeles Community Services sent me this. I am forwarding it to you because I thought you might find it of interest.

If you do and feel that it is appropriate, please forward it to your constituents.

Respectfully,

Walter Davis

A wise man does immediately, what the fool finally gets around to. Even if you are on the right track, you will be run over if you just stand there.

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From: Bruno Jaubert <lacommuni...@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:19 AM
Subject: Fw: Funding Needed to Complete Film on Youth Sentenced to Life Without Parole
To: Walter Davis <sdcommunit...@gmail.com>

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From: Youth Justice Coalition <free...@yahoo.com>
To: lacommuni...@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 7:34 AM
Subject: Funding Needed to Complete Film on Youth Sentenced to Life Without Parole

Please help to fund the making of this important film in partnership with youth serving Life Without Parole. Natural Life Natural Life is a feature length experimental video documentary the goal of which is to depict the experiences of youth who receive the most severe sentence possible--being sentenced to die in prison (i.e. given a sentence of "natural life" or "life without parole")--against the overlapping contexts of social bias, neglect, apprehension and alienation, and through these depictions to challenge the inequities in the juvenile justice system in the United States. The project aims to portray the ripple effect of the juvenile justice system’s imbalance on the lives not only of the incarcerated youth and the victims of their crime, but on their family members, on law enforcement and legal officials and on the community at large. The film follows six stories of youth from Michigan.  It also includes close to fifty interviews with individuals who were involved in various ways with the crimes, the arrest and the sentencing of the six youth. Among the people interviewed are judges, lawyers, police officers, private investigators, news reporters, wardens, youth counselors, teachers, members of families of the incarcerated youth as well as members of the victims’ families, alongside extensive recorded phone conversations with the youth themselves.  These interviews will be interwoven with staged, animated and documented moments from prison, from court and from the main characters’ childhood and crime scenes. Please take a few minutes to visit the site, and if able, to make a contribution towards the completion of the project. NO DONATION IS TOO SMALL. The fundraiser link is: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1031057648/natural-life Much love and respect for your help. Youth Justice Coalition @ Chuco's Justice Center On the border between South Central L.A. and Inglewood one light west of Florence and Crenshaw 1137 E. Redondo Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90302 323-235-4243 * Fax: 323-846-9472 free...@yahoo.com www.youth4justice.org Click Here to Make a Tax-Deductible Donation | Click here to unsubscribe