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ON FILM: Dead When I got There

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  Charles talks with filmmaker Mark Aitken, director of the documentary "Dead When I got Here," when follows the patients of a mental asylum set in the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.  The asylum is run by a former patient, and the facility has become a place of hope for these individuals whose lives were altered forever by the drug violence affecting the city.  This is an exclusive online extended interview with Aitken.  http://www.deadwhenigothere.org/

Aired June 6, 2015.

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