The Trials of Darryl Hunt(2006, 106 min.) Written & Directed by Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg.
North Carolina, 1984. A brutal murder leaves a white woman dead, and a young
black man accused. This exclusive portrait of a harrowing wrongful conviction
offers a provocative and haunting examination of a community - and a criminal
justice system - subject to racial bias and tainted by fear. For more information
visit: www.breakthrufilms.org
This award-winning documentary investigates a brutal rape/murder case and a
wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, imprisoned nearly 20 years for a crime he
did not commit. At once a social justice story, a decades-long courtroom drama,
and a personally driven narrative, the film follows this capital case from 1984
through 2004 through exclusive footage from two decades, the film frames the
judicial and emotional response to a chilling crime - and the implications that
reverberated from Hunt's conviction - against a backdrop of class and racial bias
in the South and in the American criminal justice system.
North Carolina, 1984. A brutal murder leaves a white woman dead, and a young
black man accused. This exclusive portrait of a harrowing wrongful conviction
offers a provocative and haunting examination of a community - and a criminal
justice system - subject to racial bias and tainted by fear. For more information
visit: 
This award-winning documentary investigates a brutal rape/murder case and a
wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, imprisoned nearly 20 years for a crime he
did not commit. At once a social justice story, a decades-long courtroom drama,
and a personally driven narrative, the film follows this capital case from 1984
through 2004 through exclusive footage from two decades, the film frames the
judicial and emotional response to a chilling crime - and the implications that
reverberated from Hunt's conviction - against a backdrop of class and racial bias
in the South and in the American criminal justice system.