UPDATED 4/9/2011 By Candace Sweat at 11:30pm

Gina Williams sat quietly, listening as the people around her talked passionately about what happened to her son five years ago.

"A lot of things was going through my mind. Right now a lot of hatred toward the guards, the nurse," said Williams.

A crowd had just finished watching "Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story."

Through five years of documented video and interviews, the film tells the story of William's 14-year-old son who died after being handled by seven boot camp guards.

Anderson's family won a multi million-dollar civil settlement following his death, but the guards were acquitted of criminal charges.

"He was only in there for two hours. Fourteen years old. Buried him before his 15th birthday. I wish that on nobody," said Williams.

The film's director, Andy Opel, says he felt the need to tell Anderson's story to shed light on race, class, and the importance of video documentation.

William's attorney, Ben Crump says watching the documentary brought back memories of his time spent on a case that, at the end, did not bring about justice.

"Nobody was convicted of anything and it's one of those things where you say the justice system in America is the best in the world, and even with that being the case, nothing happened here," said Crump.

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14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson checked into the Bay County Sheriff's Office Boot Camp on January 5th, 2006.

Less than 24 hours later he was dead. What lead to his death sparked whirlwind of protest, media frenzy, and court appearances, and inspired a local professor to tell back-story at this year's Tallahassee Film Festival.

This is just a snippet of what the audience can expect at Saturday's showing of "Beating Justice - the Martin Lee Anderson Story".

Emotionally charged interviews from family, friends, and activists, and of course, the video. Video that, according to the film's director, sends a very clear message.

"Poor African American children do not receive equal treatment under the law. And we still have racial and class based disparities in our justice system in this country and I think this film needs to be shown to keep attention on that," said director, Andy Opel.

Through five years of documented video and interviews, the film tells the story of the teenage boy who died after being handled by eight boot camp guards. Anderson's family won a 5 million-dollar civil settlement following his death, but the were acquitted on any wrongdoing.

"It was an all white jury selected in Bay county. And when we think about a jury of our peers I don't know that it was necessarily representative of a jury of Martin Lee Anderson's peers," said Opel.

When asked why he took on such a task, Opel says he wanted to bring to the forefront issues like race, class, and the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. More importantly, he wanted to highlight the power catching incidents like this in living color.

"The only reason we know about it is because that video tape was made. So this show the power of video tape to keep us informed," said Opel.

Opel says it's difficult to pinpoint a definitive message in the documentary. If anything, he says the message is that there really is no definitive ending in this case.

WCTV attempted to contact the attorneys for several of the guards and nurse in the video, but I have not heard back from them.

WCTV also attempted to get a statement from the Department of Juvenile justice, but was told it was too close to closing hours to get a statement from anyone. Following the case, all Florida juvenile Boot camps were shut down.

And as if right on cue, House Bill 411 passed Wednesday. The Bill would basically make video or audio recordings of a killing confidential and exempt from public records.