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Borderline - The
People vs. Eunice Baker
Stawomir Grunberg
/ USA / 2004 / 75 min
Slawomir Grunberg (whose "School Prayer" was shown
at the festival in 2001) remains a keen observer of American
social life, especially in the realm of individual rights.
His "Borderline" is part of a long tradition of
documentaries exposing faults in American criminal trials.
The film's main character, Eunice Baker, a borderline mentally
disabled woman, was sentenced to long imprisonment for murdering
a child she was babysitting. During her first police interrogation,
she signed a confession stating that she intentionally killed
the child by turning the thermostat in her bedroom up to 35
degrees. Court experts testified, however, that the heat was
caused by a short circuit in the thermostat's wiring.
FALL CREEK CINEMA - Ithaca, New York
February 17th through the 23rd, 7pm
Join us for a screening of the film, followed by a
discussion with Eunice and her mother, Debra.
www.cinemapolis.com/fallcreek.asp
Chicago International Documentary Festival
April 2005.
Sprout Film Festival
Mother's Day, 2005 - NYC
Athens International Film Festival
May, 2005
Bay Street Film Festival
Thunder Bay, Canada - 2005
Award for the Best Documentary on a Theme on Disability
5th International Picture This... International Film Festival
Calgary, Alberta, Canada - 2006
www.ptff.org/
Human Rights in Film Festival in Warsaw 2005
New Screen Television Series 2005
Perspectives International Film Festival
www.perspectives-iff.org/
The Open University
Series on Disability
Budapest, Hungary - 4/27/2006
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