Ricki Stern

As Martin Luther King said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." In the case of Darryl Hunt, that curve took its own sweet time. Hunt spent nearly 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, and emerged only due to the heroic efforts of a group of lawyers and activists. Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg began filming Hunt's story in the early '90s, enjoying intimate access once attorney-client privilege was waived. With rich visual material from a 20-year period, they present an engrossing tale of police obstruction, inane press coverage, and bumbling judges. While partly an indictment of a broken, racist judicial system, Trials also serves as a tribute to the saving grace of friendship and a portrait of a man whose spirit survived an epic ordeal. (PS)… (plus d'informations)

When Brian Steidle took a job as an unarmed observer in the Darfur region of the Sudan, it's safe to say that he had no clue what he was going to encounter. Armed with only a camera, this former Marine captain found himself a helpless observer to the genocide that took place when the Arab-controlled government offered active support to the Janjaweed militias, who carried out systematic torture, rape and murder against local villages and tribes. Journalists couldn't get in, but when Steidle got out, his feelings of outrage and powerlessness drove him to leak his photos to the press. True/False alums Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern (The Trials of Daryl Hunt) document Brian's personal transformation from witness to activist. (DW)

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"The Trials of Darryl Hunt" is a feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Both a social justice story and a personally driven narrative, the film chronicles this capital case from 1984 through 2004. With exclusive footage from two decades, the film frames the judicial and emotional response to a chilling crime - and the implications that reverberate from Hunt's conviction - against a backdrop of class and racial bias in the South and in the American criminal justice system.
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