No Jail Time

Lance Oppenheim VS 2017 9 min.

“Sentencing videos” is a flourishing phenomenon in the American juridical world. Criminal attorneys contact independent filmmakers – or sometimes take up the camera themselves – to make an empathic mini documentary about their defendants.

DOCVILLE 2018
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Although these video’s copy every method used in a classic documentary, their target audience is limited to one pair of eyes: that of the judge. The only goal of these “biographic” documents is to plea bargain at all costs…

 

This short film will be screened before the feature film The Judge.