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2008 Great Lakes Film Festival
Tribute: Stanley Tookie Williams Documentary Feature Director: Barbara Becnel Run Time: 1 hr 6 mins
Synopsis:
TRIBUTE also includes provocative eulogies by Snoop Dogg, Tony Robbins and Louis Farrakhan—speaking at Williams’s memorial service—and never-before-seen footage of his ashes scattered by Becnel and Neal in South Africa, as he wished.
Starring:
Barbara
Becnel
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© Great Lakes Film Association
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life and premature death of condemned prisoner, Crips co-founder, children’s
book author and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Stanley Tookie Williams, killed
December 13, 2005, via a botched lethal injection procedure at San Quentin. It
took him 35 minutes to die. TRIBUTE includes filmed scenes from a staged
reenactment of that execution, produced and directed by writer Barbara Becnel
and producer Shirley Neal, longtime friends of Williams. The reenactment is
based on their real-life death-chamber experience witnessing him die.