Winner - Audience Award Sundance 2017

Colin Warner was wrongfully imprisoned for 21 years.

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The whole neighborhood knows what happened. The whole neighborhood knows you grabbed the wrong guy.

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No matter what I say... nobody wants to listen to me.

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I was transported to another planet.

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You've got everyone saying you did something. After a while, you start to question yourself.

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The truth is going to come out.

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In 1995, 544 inmates were married in New York state prisons, which house 68,000 inmates...

— The New York Times

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Most of these prisoners know, deep down, they put themselves here — but I dont have that comfort.

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If Colin were imprisoned in Texas or Florida, he would have been executed long ago.

— William RobedeeThe lawyer who helped exonerate Colin

According to the National Registry of Exonerations…

There have been more than 2,000 prisoner exonerations to date.

Those prisoners lost more than 18,000 years combined while incarcerated.

Starring
Lakeith Stanfield and Nnamdi Asomugha

Winner - Audience Award Sundance 2017

Based on a true story

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In the spring of 1980, a teenager is gunned down in the streets of Flatbush, Brooklyn. The police pressure a child witness to identify a suspect. As a result, Colin Warner, an 18-year-old kid from nearby Crown Heights, is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Colin’s childhood friend Carl 'KC' King devotes his life to fighting for Colin’s freedom. He works on appeals, takes loans for lawyer fees and becomes a legal courier to learn the court system. This incredible true story is basedon the acclaimed This American Life piece and adaptedby writer/director Matt Ruskin, with Lakeith Stanfield playing Colin Warner and Nnamdi Asomugha as Carl King.

1980

Year 1

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