After Innocence

2005 Documentary

With the advent of DNA evidence, a number of convicted criminals have been able to finally be exonerated of crimes they'd never committed in the first place. Naturally, this has added a good deal of fuel to the debates surrounding the American judicial system and capital punishment. In this documentary, Academy Award-nominated director Jessica Sanders takes a look at not only the process of freeing the wrongly convicted but the obstacles that face the prisoners once they are finally freed and attempt return to mainstream society. After Innocence premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.

Director: Jessica Sanders

 40 Reviews  4 Awards

Reviews

  • Calm, deliberate and devastating, Jessica Sanders's documentary After Innocence confirms many of the worst fears about weaknesses in the American criminal-justice system.

    Stephen Holden - The New York Times

    29 November 2012

  • What emerges from these stories is a picture of the fallibility of the system and the vulnerability of innocent citizens, whom even scientific evidence cannot protect from incompetence, ego and prejudice, and of the courage of the exonerated victims to make meaning of their tragedies.

    Carina Chocano - Los Angeles Times

    29 November 2012

  • The moral purity of After Innocence is so overwhelming that it simply leaves you with nothing to say or do. It's kind of beyond criticism.

    Stephen Hunter - The Washington Post

    29 November 2012

  • Gut-wrenching.

    Ruthe Stein - The San Francisco Chronicle

    29 November 2012

  • After Innocence isn't bravura filmmaking, and it doesn't have to be -- this is one of those documentaries where the subject is compelling enough to do the legwork.

    Ty Burr - The Boston Globe

    29 November 2012

Awards

  • Documentary

    Boston Independent Film Festival (2005)

  • Best Documentary

    Chicago International Film Festival (2005)

     

  • Jessica Sanders

    Seattle International Film Festival (2005)

  • Documentary

    Sundance Film Festival (2005)

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