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, filmmaker Cyndy Fujikawa explores Marquez’s life and tragic death at the hands of police who killed the person they were originally called upon to assist. According to the, at least 178 cases from 2019 to 2021 ended with law enforcement officers killing an individual they were intended to help during a mental health crisis, wellness check or suicide threat.
Fujikawa learned about Marquez through Villarreal. The two have been friends for years. She attended Marquez’s memorial to support Villarreal. It was there that she spoke with others from thecast who wanted answers about Marquez’s death. Their demands also included obtaining police body-cam footage of the incident.
Through her conversations with some of the cast, Fujikawa, too, wanted to know how a wellness check on a mentally ill individual could end in such a tragedy. She also wanted to make a film about the complexities of mental illness in hopes that it could help destigmatize the issue.Current . “The film was going to be about this group of people who had this long story arc with her, but then mental health really became an important piece of the conversation.”co-stars including Ingrid Oliu, Will Gotay and Patrick Baca as they seek justice for Marquez and do everything in their power to make sure Hollywood doesn’t forget her.
“Even today, I think Vanessa is with us, and I think that she would be happy that we made this documentary,” Villarreal said. “The end result is that we will not remember her for that moment with a plastic gun. We will remember her legacy. As we learned from Jaime Escalante, we turned a negative into a positive.”will screen at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts on August 4, 2023, at 3 p.m.
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