by TChris

Those who attend the Tribeca film festival in New York City will have a chance to see "Every Mother's Son" this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. or Saturday at 6:00 p.m. The film focuses on the mothers of three men who were killed by police officers.

For this task the film makers chose Kadiatou Diallo [mother of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed man who was gunned down by the police in 1999 in the Bronx], Iris Baez (her son, Anthony, was killed when a cop applied an illegal chokehold), and Doris Busch Boskey. Her son, Gideon Busch, a Hasidic Jew, was shot outside his home in Brooklyn.

Director Tami Gold wanted her film to address a large problem through the lens of three very personal experiences.

"It’s not about dealing with a few bad cops," Gold said. "The problem of police brutality is a systemic one...we both felt that it was not enough to make a documentary about police brutality alone. We wanted it to deal with the critical issues surrounding policing, but also to have a human component and an aspect of hope."

Those who can't catch the film this week will be able watch it on PBS’s P.O.V. series. The documentary is scheduled to air on August 17.