About After Innocence
AFTER INNOCENCE tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated - innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. The film focuses on the gripping story of seven men and their emotional journey back into society and efforts to rebuild their lives. Included are a police officer, an army sergeant and a young father sent to prison and even death row for decades for crimes they did not commit.
The men are thrust back into society with little or no support from the system that put them behind bars. While the public views exonerations as success stories - wrongs that have been righted - AFTER INNOCENCE shows that the human toll of wrongful imprisonment can last far longer than the sentences served.
The film raises basic questions about human rights and society's moral obligation to the innocent and places a spotlight on the flaws in our criminal justice system that lead to wrongful conviction of the innocent. The film features exonerees Dennis Maher of Lowell, MA; Calvin Willis of Shreveport, LA; Scott Hornoff of Providence, RI; Wilton Dedge of Cocoa Beach, FL.; Vincent Moto of Philadelphia, PA; Nick Yarris of Philadelphia, PA; and Herman Atkins of Los Angeles, CA.
It also features Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, founders of the Innocent Project which has helped to exonerate the more than l50 people freed through the use of DNA testing in the last decade; and highlights the work of human rights activist Dr. Lola Vollen, co-founder of the Life After Exoneration Program.
AFTER INNOCENCE is directed by Jessica Sanders, an Academy-Award nominated filmmaker (“Sing!”), and is produced and written by Jessica Sanders and Marc Simon in association with The American Film Foundation, an Academy® and Emmy®-award winning production company. Simon attended the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and was a student at the Innocence Project, an experience that inspired the idea for this film.
AFTER INNOCENCE is a Showtime Independent Films Presentation in association with American Film Foundation.
The men are thrust back into society with little or no support from the system that put them behind bars. While the public views exonerations as success stories - wrongs that have been righted - AFTER INNOCENCE shows that the human toll of wrongful imprisonment can last far longer than the sentences served.
The film raises basic questions about human rights and society's moral obligation to the innocent and places a spotlight on the flaws in our criminal justice system that lead to wrongful conviction of the innocent. The film features exonerees Dennis Maher of Lowell, MA; Calvin Willis of Shreveport, LA; Scott Hornoff of Providence, RI; Wilton Dedge of Cocoa Beach, FL.; Vincent Moto of Philadelphia, PA; Nick Yarris of Philadelphia, PA; and Herman Atkins of Los Angeles, CA.
It also features Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, founders of the Innocent Project which has helped to exonerate the more than l50 people freed through the use of DNA testing in the last decade; and highlights the work of human rights activist Dr. Lola Vollen, co-founder of the Life After Exoneration Program.
AFTER INNOCENCE is directed by Jessica Sanders, an Academy-Award nominated filmmaker (“Sing!”), and is produced and written by Jessica Sanders and Marc Simon in association with The American Film Foundation, an Academy® and Emmy®-award winning production company. Simon attended the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and was a student at the Innocence Project, an experience that inspired the idea for this film.
AFTER INNOCENCE is a Showtime Independent Films Presentation in association with American Film Foundation.
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See What The Press Has To Say...
Posted by jsanders on April 26, 2007
Read the New York Times's Rave Review by Stephen Holden
"Tells the harrowing story of seven men released from prison after DNA testing proves them innocent."
-- Susannah Gora, VARIETY : article
"a powerful film, It's certainly compelling in shining a light on how callously many states, Pennsylvania among them, fail to acknowledge responsibility for taking someone's freedom away for years based on flawed evidence."
--James Roebuck, STATE REPRESENTATIVE
"After Innocence brings justice to film...Sanders emotionally charged reality sings a song of hope and sorrow, and of faith and endurance."
--Jana Mcquay, UTAH PARK RECORD
"The most powerful and important film at Sundance this year"
--Jason Calacanis, BLOGGINGSUNDANCE.COM
"even-handed but quietly devestating"
--LA TIMES, Review
"a compelling look at a flawed system"
--Roger Moore, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"a documentary torn from the headlines...directed with compassion and outrage."
--Eric D. Snider
"It's a sobering but ultimately uplifting tale of the use of advocacy and science in the pursuit of truth and fairness."
--Al Krulick, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"at the Sundance Film Festival, viewers leaped to their feet, many in tears, at the end of the first screening."
--Sharon Waxman, NEW YORK TIMES
"A powerfully affecting documentary...Raising awareness as it raises questions...a complex and deeply troubling portrait of crime and punishment in America."
-- Scott Foundas, VARIETY : article
"For the Wrongly Convicted, New Trials Once the Cell Opens"
--Sharon Waxman, NEW YORK TIMES : PDF
"After Innocence, Reviewed; The most important film at Sundance this year."
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL : article
"Sanders inspires joy in life's redemption and anger towards the ludicrous ways some states treat the exonerated."
--Jeremy Mathews, FILM THREAT : article
"the best sort of documentary there is: it educates the viewer while inspiring him to perhaps think a little bit harder about what he believes in...It's touching and true and it couldn't be more timely."
--Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"A strong documentary about people stronger than me."
--Jay Seaver, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"Freedom Without Apology"
--Feature on Jessica Sanders, LA WEEKLY
--Pick Of The Week, LA WEEKLY
"The Trouble with Innocence"
--LA CITY BEAT
--Feature on Jessica Sanders, FILM INDEPENDENT
--Feature on Jessica Sanders, FILM FESTIVAL TODAY MAGAZINE
--Review, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
--Feature Article, GIANT ROBOT MAGAZINE
--Feature Article, ALTERNET : article
"Amazing and Heartfelt"
--ANGRYASIANMAN.COM, Review
--The Young and the Guestlist, QUEST : PDF
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