CODE 33
David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley, Zachary Werner
USA, 2005, 84 minutes
Given extraordinary access to the inner workings of an active police investigation, the filmmakers take their cameras on a nationwide manhunt for a sexual predator who attacked women as young as 11 and as old as 79 in Miami's Little Havana.
Enlisting the help of forensic artist Samantha Steinberg to create a sketch of the perpetrator, Miami Police detectives Fernando Bosch and Elio "Chills" Tamayo plaster the street with the likeness and stop hundreds of Hispanic men on the streets to obtain DNA samples. The Miami media covers the story, raising public awareness of the case and blasting the police for racial profiling. Community members meet. Guardian Angels hit the streets. Yet the rapist's identity remains a mystery.
After a long, frustrating summer full of dead ends, the task force is dismantled. But Bosch and Tamayo refuse to give up. When hope is nearly lost, another lead emerges--a man who bears a striking similarity to the initial forensic sketch is pulled over on a routine traffic stop, and the case continues.
Capturing the tenuous relationship between the police, the media and the community during a time of crisis, this slick, fast-paced film uses one criminal as a window into the complexities of a tight knit, multiethnic community struggling to understand the horrible crimes taking place in their midst.
Amy Dotson
David Beilinson produced and edited 10 episodes of the award-winning PBS documentary series IN THE MIX. Topics ranged from politics to disease to racism.
Michael Galinsky has directed and shot three feature films, HORNS AND HALOS (2002), HALF-COCKED (1995) and RADIATION (1999). Michael was a founding member of the New York band Sleepyhead.
Suki Hawley was the recipient of a grant to fund young women filmmakers from noted photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank, which she has used to develop and produce two documentary portraits.
After writing, directing and producing short films at The School of Visual Arts, Zachary Werner began his career as an associate producer on the show 9/11:Looking Back Moving Forward for the PBS series IN THE MIX.
Print Source:
Michael Galinsky
164 Hall St.
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Tel: 718.636.0949
Email: m_galinsky@yahoo.com
Saturday 6/18 at 7:30 p.m.
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