Crime After Crime (film): Difference between revisions

'''''Crime After Crime''''' is a 2011 [[documentary film]] directed by [[Yoav Potash]] about the case of [[Deborah Peagler]]. The film premiered at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] in January 2011, and will be shown at the [[San Francisco International Film Festival]] in April 2011.<ref>[http://sundance.slated.com/2011/films/crimeaftercrime_sundance2011 Sundance Film Festival website]</ref>

''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'' listed the documentary as "a must-see film"<ref>[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/env-sundance-2011-picks-pictures,0,4658910.photogallery ''The Los Angeles Times''] listed the documentary as "a must see film"</ref> and ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' described the film as "a tremendously moving story, strong in social commitment and deftly woven out of years of footage." ''[[http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/sundance/51112390-177/prison-inmates-deborah-documentary.html.csp The Salt Lake Tribune]]'' called the film "a riveting examination of justice denied through political manipulation and prosecutorial callousness."<ref>[http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/sundance/51112390-177/prison-inmates-deborah-documentary.html.csp ''The Salt Lake Tribune'']</ref> The film earned The Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film and Digital Media, presented by The Council on Foundations, and The Pursuit of Justice Award, presented by The California Women's Law Center.

The film was funded by Thethe Sundance Documentary Fund, Thethe [[San Francisco Foundation]], Thethe Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film at Thethe Foundation for Jewish Culture, Thethe Pacific Pioneer Fund, Bay Area Video Coalition, the Women in Film Foundation Film Finishing Fund supported by Netflix, Thethe Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay, and Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco. The film has been picked up by Thethe [[Oprah Winfrey Network]] for broadcast and [[home video]] distribution<ref>[http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/sundance-oprahs-own-acquires-docu-crime-after-crime/ "Oprah Network Acquires 'Crime After Crime' Doc at Sundance", Deadline.com (January 2011)]</ref>.