Screening:
Saturday, April 29, 10:00 AM, Charles 1

On May 5, 1993, 3 second-graders in the small Arkansas town of West Memphis were mutilated and murdered. 3 teenage boys from the town were tried and convicted of the murders. Paradise Lost 2: Revelations is the remarkable follow-up documentary to the first film, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. The first film touched nerves about the reality of justice in small-town America, and inspired a national movement.

This follow-up film immediately provoked the same kind of response. "There is unlikely to be anything else…more disturbing than this film. Watching it, you feel like an eyewitness to injustice," wrote Roger Ebert. Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky have chronicled with an unflinching gaze the ongoing events that sent the little town into turmoil. Compelling and insightful, the filmmakers have made a nonfiction film that the Boston Globe says is "as extreme and peculiar as any fictional crime story, including Silence of the Lambs." This is the work of filmmakers who are compelled to go where the story leads, who are determined to understand what is in front of their cameras, and to share it with an audience.

Tidbit:
An organization has been set-up to free the West Memphis Three-their website is http://www.wm3.org

Bio:
Joe Berlinger began his career in the advertising business. In 1989, he made his first film, Outrageous Taxi Stories, which won 10 major awards. In 1991, Joe formed a partnership with Bruce Sinofsky (Creative Thinking International) and they made Brother's Keeper, a landmark documentary that won 1992's Best Documentary Award from the Director's Guild, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics, and the prestigious Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. The HBO production Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills made the rare leap from cable to movie theaters. It won a Primetime Emmy, the National Board of Review's Best Documentary Award, a Peabody Award, DGA, Independent Spirit and Cable ACE nominations. In 1997, Joe directed and was supervising producer for Where It's At: The Rolling Stone State of the Union for ABC. Joe has directed episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street, and is currently in the woods of Maryland directing the sequel to the phenomenal The Blair Witch Project.