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Merrimack Valley Productions Has Announced The Documentary – BASTA – No pity – No shame – No silence, will be shown Sunday March 29th at The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center as part of The Fort Myers Film Festival. (BASTA ~ “Enough!” in Italian).
Attempting to battle the cover-up, shame and silence of clergy sexual abuse, three survivors from Boston, Massachusetts travel to Rome reaching behind the secret walls of The Vatican. Their week long effort becomes a decade long mission that exposes mind blowing statistics and unexpected global response.
BASTA – No Pity – No Shame – No Silence is a film documenting the emotional journey taken by simple men detailing their attempts to reach behind and beyond the Vatican walls in search of help, hope & aid in healing a nation reeling from the effects of the clergy abuse crisis. A decade after starting on a personal journey for justice, one man finds that success isn’t always defined by achieving his goal, sometimes it’s defined by the attempt itself. And sometimes, in that attempt, you also find out who you are.
The unlikely film producer of BASTA is Gary Bergeron, 52, a carpenter by trade, who lives in the greater Boston area. Gary and his brother came forward to their parents in 2002 about their abuse at the hands of a Boston priest. Gary consequently discovered his 77 year old father had also been abused by his priest. “Finding out that two generations of my family had lived with this painful secret was a pivotal moment. I realized that not only was I a victim of clergy sexual abuse, I was also the brother of a clergy abuse victim and the son of a clergy abuse victim. I decided to do whatever was necessary to make sure that I would never be the father of a clergy abuse victim. Regardless of the consequences, the Vatican was the next step,” said Bergeron who was recently awarded “Best New Director” for his work on BASTA.
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