'Give Up Tomorrow' Gets Emmy Nomination

For the second straight year a Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund grantee is in consideration for an Emmy. Last year it was Marathon Boy and Enemies of the People, this year the highly touted Give Up Tomorrow has received a nomination.

Selected in the Outstanding Investigative Journalism—Long-Form category for the 34th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, which were announced yesterday, this continues the vast recognition Michael Collins' film has received all over the world, including the Audience Award and Best New Director special jury mention at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.

Give Up Tomorrow tells the story of Paco Larrañaga, who was sentenced to death at age 19 for the alleged kidnapping of two sisters in a sensational mistrial in the Philippines in 1998. Charting the ordeal of Paco’s ten years in prison, the film is a moving and poetic investigative documentary that reveals the human cost of endemic corruption in a country still recovering from years of colonial rule and current democratic instability.