After Innocence
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After Innocence | |
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Directed by | Jessica Sanders |
Produced by | Jessica Sanders Marc Simon |
Written by | Jessica Sanders Marc Simon |
Music by | Chalres Bernstein |
Cinematography | Shana Hagan Buddy Squires Bestor Cram Bob Richmond |
Release date(s) | 2005 (United States) |
Running time | 95 mins. |
Language | English |
IMDb profile |
After Innocence is a 2005 United States documentary film about men who were exonerated from death row by DNA evidence. Directed by Jessica Sanders, the film took the Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
The featured exonerees are Dennis Maher; Calvin Willis; Scott Hornoff; Wilton Dedge; Vincent Moto; Nick Yarris; and Herman Atkins. Also featured are Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld of the Innocence Project and Lola Vollen of the Life After Exoneration Program.
[edit] Awards
- Sundance Film Festival -- Special Jury Prize; Grand Jury Prize (nominated)
- Seattle International Film Festival -- Women in Cinema Lena Sharpe Award
- Newport Beach Film Festival -- Special Jury Prize
- Independent Film Festival of Boston -- Audience Award
- Full Frame Documentary Film Festival -- Content + Intent = Change Award
- Nantucket Film Festival -- Best Storytelling In A Documentary
[edit] External links
- Homepage
- "For the Wrongly Convicted, New Trials Once the Cell Opens", The New York Times, January 25, 2005. (PDF link)