He wrote, directed, and produced a pilot for Comedy Central two years later. Wilson won the 2007 Wallace Alexander Gerbode Young California Playright's Award. He then attended the prestigious American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, earning a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting. Wilson graduated from Western Illinois University with a degree in Political Science. I think this script has been able to capture that.Winner of Best Documentary at The Crown Point International Film Festival, "West Side Stories: Paradise Lost," takes an in-depth look at the iconic neighborhoods on Chicago's West Side that have been a significant part of the fabric of Chicago for more than 100 years. The film depicts the Black family structure that is disrupted by a series of intentional events, which escalates into broken homes, poverty, and crime-infested neighborhoods on the West side.įilmmaker Deontay Wilson was born and raised in North Lawndale. But there's a human drama behind it all as well. I think the documentaries have done a really amazing job of showing that. In this case, it was very clear to me that there was a miscarriage of justice. It's an amazing story of a community and the conflicting emotional needs of seeking and finding justice, but also the complexities of jumping to conclusions. "The screenplay beautifully examines the ebb and flow of grief, disbelief and anger that flowed through the community in the wake of this catastrophe. "It's a contemporary Salem witch-hunt," he said. " very exciting news, obviously quite shocking and sadly predictable," he said.Įgoyan revealed he hoped to uncover the "human drama" behind the convictions. The director told the Hollywood Reporter he was delighted the men were finally free. All three of the men had been fans of Metallica, and critics of their convictions suggested it was their appearance and choice of lifestyle which contributed more to local suspicion than any hard physical evidence.Īs well as the documentary, Armenian-Canadian director Egoyan is working on a drama about the West Memphis Three, based on the book Devil's Knot by journalist Mara Leveritt. The first two Paradise Lost films attracted attention after the rock band Metallica allowed Berlinger and Sinofsky permission to use their songs in the documentary. In a separate interview with the Wrap blog, Berlinger said that Echols would have been unable to afford an expensive series of appeals without the help of an internet fundraising campaign and would have been executed by now. To not be able to seek compensation is just wrong." Damien was on death row for 17 years, hasn't seen sunlight in the last seven or eight years and was by all reports terribly treated. It was a cover-your-ass deal to make sure there would be no lawsuit for a wrongful conviction. And at the Arkansas press conference, they maintained these guys were guilty, and washed their hands of accountability. "These guys still have murder convictions hanging over their heads, and that will be there for the rest of their lives. "That the state of Arkansas did not have the courage to exonerate them and admit they made a mistake was shameful," Berlinger said. Instead, Echols, Misskelley and Baldwin were sentenced to time already served and allowed to go free. The duo criticised the judge's decision not to overturn the original verdict, following which Echols was sentenced to death and Misskelley and Baldwin were ordered to spend the rest of their lives in prison. We'll tack on one more scene that changes the ending from a question mark to a joyous triumphant moment, but we'll aim for the New York film festival or for HBO." "We worked on it for a long time and it didn't seem right to rush a new ending. "We've made the decision to let the film play as is in Toronto," Berlinger told Deadline. Like its two predecessors, Purgatory will be shown on the HBO cable channel in the US once it has completed a round of film-festival screenings. The Arkansas supreme-court ruling which freed the men did not go quite that far: it required the trio to file an Alford plea, which allows them to assert their innocence while accepting that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict them. Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory is the film-making team of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's latest attempt to prove that the West Memphis Three have been wrongly convicted, following previous films in 19.
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