As we put the finishing touches on our “25 New Faces” list — which comes out this week — I’ll note the latest project of one of last year’s selections, director Alrick Brown. Last fall he had his Sundance hit Kinyarwanda arrive in theaters, and now he’s directed an episode of a new ABC series, Final Witness, that airs tomorrow night, July 18 at 10Pm Est on ABC.
The Wall Street Journal covered this show this past weekend, describing the style as “Sundance-era poetic indie film”:
Over seven Wednesdays each stand-alone true crime story dramatized and documented on “Final Witness,” braids a deceased victim’s fictionalized first-person voice-over with ambitiously staged re-enactments and interviews with actual friends, relatives and law enforcement. The result is a unique docudrama hybrid anchored in both the truth of fact and the emotional truth of fiction. “I’ve done a lot of work in true...
The Wall Street Journal covered this show this past weekend, describing the style as “Sundance-era poetic indie film”:
Over seven Wednesdays each stand-alone true crime story dramatized and documented on “Final Witness,” braids a deceased victim’s fictionalized first-person voice-over with ambitiously staged re-enactments and interviews with actual friends, relatives and law enforcement. The result is a unique docudrama hybrid anchored in both the truth of fact and the emotional truth of fiction. “I’ve done a lot of work in true...
- 7/17/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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