Can a Documentary Save Lives?
Omtimes: Why aren’t measures being taken to make deadly roads like Pacific Coast Highway safer?
Michel: The state is broke and human life has no value…there any other reason to continue to let people die on this road here and everywhere. It’s outrageous, in the last 12 days their have been over 9 accidents on this road. On Memorial Day weekend 400,000 cars descended into Malibu to go to the beach…That cares right, well we do
Omtimes: How will your project benefit other communities?
Michel: We hope that through this process of investigation and information gathering through talking with experts as well as people who travel the road on a regular base that we can come up with a set of solutions that can work for any communities that have highways traveling through them. We are looking at big picture changes and ones that can be implemented immediately. We hope the film can be a template. About Michel Shane
Michel Shane is a filmmaker, producer and co-founder of Hand Picked Films. He’s best known as the executive producer of “Catch Me If You Can” and “I, Robot,” along with his business partner Anthony Romano. On April 3, 2010, Shane’s 13-year-old daughter Emily Rose was killed by an erratic, speeding motorist on Pacific Coast Highway, a road that has become notorious for motorist and pedestrian fatalities. Lined by homes on one side and ocean on the other, it serves a community of 13,000 but draws hundreds of thousands of motorists on holiday weekends. Recognizing that many communities have a deadly highway, Shane hopes to provide a “template for change” using his documentary as a catalyst.
