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There Will Be No Stay

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There Will Be No Stay
Directed byPatty Ann Dillon
Written byPatty Ann Dillon
Produced byPatty Ann Dillon
StarringAllen Ault, Craig Baxley, Terry Bracey, Bill Pelke, Carroll Pickett, Jim Willet
CinematographyJeremy Osbern
Edited byNicholas Fackler
Music bySam Martin
Production
companies
T.W.B.N.S, Through a Glass Productions
Distributed byFilmBuff
Release date
  • March 1, 2015 (2015-03-01)
Running time
71 Minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$200,000

There Will Be No Stay is 2015 documentary by Patty Ann Dillon that discusses the death penalty from the point of view of the executioners. It was released in the Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival on March 1, 2015. It is described as "A journey of compassion and consequence through a process shrouded in secrecy. Executioners' lives intersect on a path to discovering freedom from their own personal prisons."[1]

Production

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There Will Be No Stay was originally titled "To Kill The Killer." It was the first episode in a 13-part documentary series that Patty Ann Dillon wrote called Dichotomy of Death originally intended for television. Dillion then changed her mind and decided to make a documentary. Dillon wrote, directed, and produced the film.[2] It was filmed on a small estimated budget of $200,000 from October 15, 2012 - April 5, 2013[3] with ex-executioners in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Wilmington, North Carolina; Omaha, Nebraska; and Texas.[4]

The film had its world premiere at the 2015 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, followed by Cinequest, and the Omaha Film Festival. The film has been nominated for five awards including three best documentary feature awards, and two audience choice awards.

Release nationwide

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The movie was released nationwide via distributor FilmBuff beginning January 19, 2016

References

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  1. ^ "There Will Be No Stay (2016) - Release Info". IMDb. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  2. ^ "There Will Be No Stay (2016) - Trivia". IMDb. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  3. ^ "There Will Be No Stay (2016)". IMDb. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  4. ^ "There Will Be No Stay (2016) - Filming and Production". IMDb. Retrieved May 5, 2020.