A New Documentary Traces What Led to the Rust Shooting

O lalN 21 October, 2021, cinematographer Haleena Hutchins was accidentally shot dead by a propert gun on the set of an independent Western film. CorrosionShe was taken to work in Bonanza City, New Mexico. The film’s author and director, Joel Suza, also escaped his injuries. The catastrophic accident caused shock by the film industry and drawn international attention, partially due to the fact that Lead Actor Alex Baldwin has a prop gun, and because live ammunition was present on the set of the film.

In the subsequent months, investigations exactly what happened, and how live ammunition ended on a movie set, became international sensations, like the resulting lawsuit and criminal trial. Baldwin, listed as the producer of the film, was also accused of an involuntary massacre, as the properties of the production were key assistant and Armer Hanna Gutirez-Read.

On March 11, Hulu will premier the 90 -minute documentary, Last Tech: The story of Rust and HalenaWho sees the human story behind Corrosion Shooting pays tribute to Huchins, and looks at the legal results of the fire. Directed by Hutchins’ friend Rachel Mason, Finally take The features of footage behind the scenes from the set of the film and the interviews with numerous people working CorrosionSoza, first assistant director Dave Halls and Hutchins’ camera crew team members, plus law enforcement officers and special complainants of the case, including Kari Morisi.

Time Finally take Viewers stepped in by events leading to tragic shooting, he also honors a talented cinematographer at the center of the tragedy and raises questions about working conditions on the set of the film, where the SEACY NA-Set Safety Protocol is regularly ignored to meet the production deadline.

Let’s look closely at what happened Corrosion Shooting, and legal consequences.

Who was Haleena Hutchins?

Helina Huchins was born in Helina Anatolive’s Androsovich in 1979 in the Ukrainian family. Before going to Los Angeles to Los Angeles, Hachin began his career to work on documentary films in Eastern Europe, where he earned his master’s degree at the American Film Institute Conservatory.

Before CorrosionHuchins mainly worked on low budget and short films. In 2019, American Cinematographer Magazine named him as one of the 10 up-and-up director of photography, who made his own place, which attracted attention Corrosion Director Joel Suza. In Finally takeSuza described as a person writing Huchins Down, who wants to work with after reading about his work in this issue. Finally take Also discuss how Huchins were excited to work Corrosion Because she would be her first West.

Corrosion 8 October, 2021 went into production. Hutchins was working on the 21 Oct Cutt, while Prop Gun Baldwin was fatally struck in a live round while rehearsing a scene. He died at the age of 42 that day.

Who is henna guterez-rid?

Henna Guterez-Reed was an armor on the set Corrosion. She is Thal Reed’s step -daughter, a career movie armor that worked famously as a western budget of a high budget Tomb (1993) and Fast and dead (1995).

The interview was not taken for Guterez-Read Finally takeBut he appears in police inquiries and body footage.

When he ever blames clearly on Guterez-Reed, Finally take Notes many issues around his presence CorrosionThe set, including her work experience and a lack of relative young age (she was 24 in 2021), and the fact that she was technically doing two jobs and would have become immediate in the process of investigating that each prop gun was safe before using.

Following the OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) investigation, Guterez-Reed was accused of an involuntary massacre, as he loaded the propper gun that killed Hutchins. He was also accused of compromising the evidence, but was later declared innocent. On March 6, 2024, Guterez-Reed was convicted by a jury and sentenced to 18 months in prison.

After being sentenced, Guterez-Reed, who blamed the management of the film for the shooting, asked Santa Fay’s judge to consider the probation instead of the maximum prison time. “Your honor, when I took CorrosionI was small and lazy. “Guterez-Reed said,” I took my job as seriously as I knew. “I request you, please, don’t give me more time. The jury has blamed me for this horrible tragedy, but it doesn’t make me a monster. It makes me human.”

Did anyone worry about security before shooting?

Yes Finally take Speaks on CorrosionThe first camera assistant, Lane Lupper, who resigned the day before the shooting, citing security concerns around the use of guns on the set. When asked to describe his reasons for leaving his post, the Lupper film tells the makers: “For me, it felt like they really didn’t care to be safe. We wanted them to solve these problems, and felt that if someone changed, someone would hurt.”

Lupper also tells the filmmakers that she has led to an accident for several days when she was noticing negligent discharge on the set. (A negligent discharge is that when a weapon or special effect stops unexpectedly.) “Seeing how weapons were handled on the set, I really began to harass, and people would point to the people how they will catch guns and fire weapons.” When two back-to-back negligence dissolves to lupper manufacturers, their concerns were ignored.

“You expect people who are in charge of the product – manufacturers, adults in the room – will be adults in the room and prevent certain things, and prevent security issues. And it never happened, “Lupper tells filmmakers. The producers of the film did not respond to Lupper’s claims Finally take. In one Statement To Los Angeles Time About the claims of setting of safety in 2021, not-set issues, Corrosion “Although we were not aware of any official complaints on weapons or propagy on the set, we will review our actions internally when we are closed,” the manufacturers said.

After shooting, five additional live rounds were invented Corrosion Set Baldwin’s gun belt and on top of the cart, where the crew kept the props.

What has Alex Baldwin said about the shooting, and where is his legal case currently stand?

Baldwin has repeatedly rejected the responsibility of Hutchins’ death, noting that he was told that there was no live round in the prop gun and that live ammunition is always banned from the movie set. Baldwin has also refused to pull the trigger, but the case complainants have argued that forensic reports show that the gun can only be closed due to a pulled trigger.

Its first Statement After the shooting on 22 October, 2021, Baldwin wrote on social media: “There are no words to show my shock and sadness over our tragic accident, which our wife, mother and Deeply Bande admired Hellena Hutchins.

“I fully contribute to the police investigation into how the tragedy happened and I am in touch with her husband with my support to her and her family. My heart is broken for everyone who knows and loved her husband, her son and Halena. “

Later, in a statement on the allegations of involuntary massacre, Baldwin’s attorney said: “The decision distorted Haleen’s Hutchins’ tragic death and represents the terrible miscarriage of justice. Mr. Baldwin had a live bullet in a gun or had no reason to believe anywhere on the movie set. He relied on the professionals he worked with, who assured him that the gun was not a live round. We will fight these allegations, and we will win. “

Recently, Baldwin has talked about the feelings around him Corrosion Shooting on TLC’s reality show BaldwinsHe also has his wife, Hillaria and seven children. “A son has lost his mom in a very imaginative tragedy. This is never to be forgotten, and we are trying to parents by him,” Hillaria tried to balance his family’s misery, while the shooting was 10 years old. Meanwhile, Baldwin has been shown to be broken in tears, struggling with post -trauma stress, and manages its rising OCD as it prepares for a trial of genocide.

In July 2024, a judge threw the case of an involuntary massacre against Baldwin with prejudice, while the actor’s chief attorney, Alex Spiro, argued that the lawyers hid the evidence of ammunition linked to the fatal shooting.

Special complainant Kari Morrisy tried to appeal the judge’s decision, but the office of New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torres decided on December 23, 2024, “Not to appeal on behalf of the complainant.”

Baldwin was also not interviewed directly Finally takeHowever, it appears in the footage of the body why and the police inquiry.

What has Haleena Hutchins’ family said?

In October Catber 2022, Rust Movie Productions The settlement reached With Haleena Huchins’ estate. “I have no interest in blaming the producers or Mr. Baldwin or stopping at the attribution,” Matt Hachins said in a statement at the time. We all believe that Halena’s death was a terrible accident. I am grateful that the creators and the entertainment community have come together to pay tribute to Helena’s final work. ”

However, Matt Hachins has claimed that due to the fact that New Mexico had pulled the tax credits of the film, he did not receive a timely fashion settlement, which was to make some funds of settlement. Matt was also made an executive producer CorrosionWho started the shooting in April 2023 and premiered the last fall at the camerimage in Poland.

Huchins’ mother, Olga Solove, has criticized Baldwin’s response. In November 2024, Solow said Baldwin refused to apologize for the death of his daughter’s accidental shootings. She also accused her of trying to “make unjust profit” from the tragedy, which the actor called “clearly untruth”.

“Meeting my daughter in Poland always hoped that her work was alive on the screen,” Solow said in a statement at the time. “Unfortunately, when Alec Baldwin gave his gun leave and killed my daughter, she was snatched from me. Alex Baldwin continues to increase my pain with me refusal to apologize and to take responsibility for his death. Instead, he tries to make an unfairly profit from my daughter’s murder. This is the reason I refuse to participate in the festival for promotion CorrosionEspecially now when there is no justice for my daughter. “