(Editor's note: Andy Abrahams Wilson of San Francisco is director of "Alfredo's Fire," a documentary about a gay Italian writer who lit himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, illuminating the deadly consequences of religious intolerance. This week, the filmmaker started a Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 to finish the movie. Please visit the Kickstarter page to learn much, much more about gay writer Alfredo Ormando.

NEW YORK – “Give Up Tomorrow,” an astonishing documentary about an outrageous miscarriage of justice, comes to PBS on Thursday, Oct. 4.

Produced by Marty Syjuco and directed by Mike Collins, a longtime gay couple living in Brooklyn, N.Y., the documentary is part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the “POV” (“Point Of View”) series on PBS.

The documentary won the Audience Award at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival and has captivated audiences around the world, including in the Philippines, where the judicial system failed spectacularly in a double murder case.

SAN FRANCISO – The makers of the documentary “Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton” are reaching out to movie lovers for help to finish post-production.

Kyle DeVries and the “Big Joy” team notified SDGLN about the Kickstarter campaign that concludes in five days with the goal of raising $22,000 to finish the documentary. As of Tuesday morning, more than $12,000 had been pledged.

“We Were Here,” the 2011 American documentary that is getting buzz as a possible Academy Award nominee, is now available on pay-per-view (PPV) and video-on-demand (VOD).