The Trials of Darryl Hunt (DVD)
DIRECTED BY - Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg
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RUNTIME - 107 minutes
RATING - PG-13 (MPAA)
YEAR - 2006
GENRES - documentary
Film Info
With footage culled from a 20-year period this documentary tells the tale of shocking racial bias in the American South as the murder trial of Darryl Hunt winds to a terrible conclusion.
Full Synopsis :North Carolina, 1984. A brutal murder leaves a white woman dead, and a young black man accused. This exclusive portrait of a harrowing wrongful conviction offers a provocative and haunting examination of a community - and a criminal justice system - subject to racial bias and tainted by fear.
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Awards
- Nominated - Best Documentary
2007 Independent Spirit Awards (Santa Monica, United States) - Nominated - Grand Jury Prize
2006 Sundance Film Festival (Park City, United States) - Won - Audience Award
2006 BendFilm (Bend, United States) - Won - Audience Award
2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Durham, United States) - Won - Best of Show
2006 BendFilm (Bend, United States) - Won - Golden Space Needle Award for Best Documentary
2007 Seattle International Film Festival (Seattle, United States)
Press
"Plays like a dramatic feature - a gripper, full of classic elements that will excite your emotions."
- Irv Letofsky, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Full Article
" a powerful and unsettling chronicle ... a quietly damning portrait of a North Carolina community divided by a horrific crime and its racially charged aftermath, with a laserlike intensity that will have auds' blood boiling."