"Plays like a dramatic feature... a gripper, full of classic elements that will excite your emotions... " - Irv Letofsky, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Full Article "... a powerful and unsettling chronicle ... a quietly damning portrait of a North Carolina community divided by a horrific crime and its racially charged aftermath, with a laserlike intensity that will have auds' blood boiling." - Justin Chang, VARIETY Full Article "The power of this film is in its methodical telling....by film's end, even those viewers who generally are inured to the wrongful-conviction genre of documentaries will be moved by the terrible injustice wreaked on Hunt. ... To survive a 20-year-old ordeal like he did and not exhibit self-pity or malice is truly glorious. - Duane Byrge, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Full Article Hunt's graciousness ... offers a more profoundly uplifting message about the resiliency of the human spirit than any of the dramatic features (at Sundance). - Mark Caro, CHICAGO TRIBUNE "...one of the best received documentaries to show in Park City this year" - Colin Brown, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL "riveting and often heartbreaking" - Marc Burger, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL Full Article "... an interesting and shocking film that tells a story many of us knew nothing about but are affected by it nonetheless." - Don R. Lewis, FILM THREAT "a powerful story of a miscarriage of justice that kept a black man in prison years after DNA testing cleared him of any crime" - Kenneth Turan, LA TIMES As for the educational potential of these films, Steve Bright, Director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, and one of the hardest working lawyers in the US, put it best: "The criminal courts deal almost exclusively with poor people and most people are completely unaware of how poorly it functions, the racial discrimination, and how it has become a dumping ground for the mentally ill, homeless people, etc. People also have no idea how harsh and degrading the system is, or the huge volume of people who are processed through it. The legislatures and federal courts are largely indifferent to the lack of fairness in the criminal courts and the excessive sentences that are being imposed, so documentaries are the best hope for change with regard to criminal justice policy." - Angela Tucker, www.mediarights.org «Previous page