Change the Ref’s emotional alternate ending

This impactful film, created by Klick Health and directed by Jose Padilha through Taking Over for youth welfare organisation Change the Ref, looks at right to life through a unique and emotional lens. 

Drawing on horrifying data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), attributing firearms as the leading cause of child and teen fatalities, the film links gun violence and paediatric cancer in an emotional storyline about a young girl who beats the disease, only to face a school shooting on her return.

“A victim is a victim,” Patricia and Manuel Oliver, co-founders of CTF, says about the significance of the film’s unique double narrative. “These are two important issues that we are confronting,” said Patricia, who appears in the film as the school teacher. Added Manuel, “This is not about gun violence versus cancer; this is gun violence in alliance with cancer. How can we prevent both of them? Because a victim is a victim, and every father and mother who loses a child goes through the same pain.”