Community Movie Night: Mario's Story

COMMUNITY MOVIE NIGHT: MARIO’S STORY      6PM

In 1998 Mario Rocha was convicted of murder on the basis of one questionable identification and not a shred of physical evidence. He was 16 years old at the time of his arrest, but was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison. While spending over two years in juvenile hall awaiting trial, Mario joined a writing program and discovered his talent for writing. Today his stories, plays and poems are published and performed in prisons throughout the country. This film interweaves Mario’s story as an inmate in one of California’s toughest maximum-security prisons with the efforts of an unlikely group of people who have come together to win his freedom.

Co-sponsored by Hoodlums Music & Movies. With a hand stamp you’ll receive at the screening, you’re entitled to post-show discounts from several merchants here in the Tempe Square shopping center: Baskin Robbins, Wildflower Bread Company, Mac’s Broiler & Tap, Hoodlums, and Changing Hands.