This is the trailer for the documentary "Skid Row". It features Pras Michel of the Fugees who lived on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles as a homeless man for nine days. The film was made to raise awareness about this tragic and growing situation facing all of our major cities.
TWO AWARD-WINNING FILMS FROM GHOST RIDER PICTURES
HEADLINE MOONDANCE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL:
Forgotten on the Bayou: Rockey?s Mission to the White House
Execution
Former Death Row Inmate Stars in Controversial New Film
LOS ANGELES, CA ? September 3, 2007 // At this year?s highly anticipated Moondance International Film Festival (Sept. 7-9, 2007; www.moondancefilmfestival.com) in Los Angeles, two award-winning and controversial films from Ghost Rider Pictures will headline:
Forgotten on the Bayou: Rockey?s Mission to the White House
Documentary ? www.forgottenonthebayou.com
Saturday, September 8, 2007 / 7:00PM
Universal Studios CityWalk / Theater 16
Rockey Vaccarella first made news when he survived Hurricane Katrina by clinging to a rope on the roof of his submerged house for more than four hours. As amazing as that feat was, his mission to raise awareness about the devastation of Katrina is what captured the attention of America and much of the world. Last August, the world watched and applauded when Rockey towed his FEMA trailer from Louisiana to the White House with an invitation to have dinner with President Bush. Forgotten on the Bayou: Rockey?s Mission to the White House is a feature-length documentary chronicling Rockey?s journey from his devastated hometown of Mereaux, Louisiana to the Oval Office for a most unlikely meeting with the President of the United States.
Rockey Vaccarella will be available for interviews in Los Angeles on Sept. 7-8, 2007.
Execution
Drama ? www.executionfilm.com
Saturday, September 8, 2007 / 10:15PM
Universal Studios CityWalk / Theater 15
Moondance Film Festival 2007 / Page 2
In 1995, two filmmakers gained unprecedented access to death row and the final seven days of one man's life before his execution by electric chair. The filmmakers fought over the final shot. Eventually two surveillance cameras were hidden in the death chamber and recorded the condemned man's execution. The footage was confiscated by the warden and hidden from the public for 10 years...until now.
This controversial film takes you closer to the execution process than any film before and stars:
William Neal Moore (?The Condemned Man?) ? he was on Georgia?s Death Row for 16 years and came within 7 hours of his own execution on May 24, 1984 before he received a stay due to the efforts of the victim?s family. He is the only man in America to have a death sentence commuted to lifetime parole for a capital crime that he confessed to and was convicted for. He is an unconditional free man today.
William Neal Moore will be available for interviews immediately prior to the screening.
Donald Cabana (?The Warden?) ? he is the former Warden of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchment and author of Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner who has personally overseen the execution of four men. Mr. Cabana is still a Warden today at a prison in Gulfport, Mississippi.