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True Conviction
True Conviction follows exonerated ex-prisoners who started a detective agency to help free other wrongly incarcerated people, as they rebuild their lives, investigate cases, support each other, and campaign to fix the criminal justice system.
- Series
- Independent Lens
- Premiere Date
- April 30, 2018
- Length
- 90 minutes
- Funding Initiative
- Open Call
Director
Jamie Meltzer
Jamie Meltzer is a documentary filmmaker and professor in the MFA Program in Documentary Film at Stanford University. His award-winning documentaries have screened at Berlinale, Hot Docs, SXSW, and Tribeca, broadcast on PBS and as New York Times Op-Docs, and supported by the Sundance Institute, MacArthur Foundation, and ITVS.
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Producer
Kate McLean
Kate McLean is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. Her project Immigrant Nation was awarded the Tribeca Film Institute New Media grant and is slated to launch later this year. Her short film Pot Country screened at a number of festivals, including Hot Docs and Mill Valley International Film Festival. Before that, she worked as an Associate Producer on… Show more
Producer
David Alvarado
David Alvarado is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, focusing on biographies in science, health, and the arts. His past PBS work includes Bill Nye: Science Guy (POV), Matter of Mind (Independent Lens), Blood Sugar Rising (WGBH), and Secrets in your Data (NOVA). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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The Film
There’s a new detective agency in Dallas, Texas, started by a group of exonerated men with decades in prison served between them.
Chris Scott was sitting in a support group meeting for men who were bound together by the painful experience of wasting years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit, when he was struck by a realization: there was a dream team right in front of him, ready to step into action. He and his friends had firsthand knowledge of how wrongful convictions happen. Together, they could start an investigative unit, a detective agency of sorts, to look for innocent people still incarcerated. They would draw from what they knew, as well as from the expertise of the attorneys who helped get them out of prison. Calling themselves the “Freedom Fighters,” their goal would be to free those they deemed wrongly accused who are still behind bars.
True Conviction follows these change-makers as they rebuild their lives and families, learn to investigate cases, work to support each other, and campaign to fix the criminal justice system.
