Saville Executive Producer Rupert Maconick is interviewed by KCAL9 reporter Serene Branson regarding the dangers of texting and driving, in association with Werner Herzog’s 35-minute PSA “From One Second to the Next – It Can Wait.”
VENICE (CBSLA.com) — A Venice-based production company is trying to save lives by alerting drivers to the dangers of texting while behind the wheel with a 35-minute PSA.
Saville Productions made the half-hour documentary “From One Second To The Next – It Can Wait”. The short film, helmed by German director/actor Werner Herzog, was funded by AT&T and other major wireless carriers. It features testimonials from victims whose lives were forever changed when they were struck by distracted drivers tapping messages like, “I’m on my way,” or taking swift glances at their cell phones.
XZavier Bilbo, eight, is among those victims. He was run over by a texting driver while holding his sister’s hand. He is paralyzed from the neck down. His legs, gone. “There are times when the pain is so bad I can’t breathe,” XZavier’s mother says.
Saville Productions’ Rupert Maconick hopes sharing the boy’s story, and others’, will be a catalyst for texting drivers to change their behavior when they see the devastating outcomes their actions can have.
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