About this Event
Please join Rickey Jackson and director Matt Waldeck for an in-person meet and greet cocktail hour, screening, panel discussion and Q & A post screening with the Los Angeles Innocence Project as they celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Rickey’s exoneration and International Wrongful Conviction Day. All net ticket sales benefit legal aid for the wrongfully incarcerated via the Los Angeles Innocence Project. Souvenir bracelets and photo ops included with premiere night ticket purchase along with cocktail hour meet and greet and post-screening discounted beverages.
Film Synopsis: At the time of his release in November 2014 Rickey Jackson was the longest wrongfully incarcerated person in U.S. history, spending 39 years on death row and in Pr*son for a M**der he didn’t commit. In this boldly cinematic, award-winning documentary, Mr. Jackson returns to the actual Pr*son where he was sent in 1976 to participate in reenactments alongside actors and his real-life false accuser while narrating in his own words as he guides the younger version of himself (Mario Beverly) from death row to freedom. Utilizing innovative storytelling technique throughout and pushing the boundary of documentary form, Jackson creates beauty from tragedy in his triumphant and harrowing firsthand accounting of what life in the U.S. Justice System was like for the wrongfully incarcerated at the end of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Laemmle NoHo 7, 5240 Lankershim Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States
USD 100.00
