#84 Special Features: Documentarian Jia Wertz
This week on The Reel Debaters Micheal sits down with filmmaker Jia Wertz to talk about her documentary Conviction about Jeffrey Deskovic who at 16 years old was convicted of the rape and murder of Angela Correa, a 15 year old high school classmate and why true crime and its genre in film grab at us and we can't not watch.
Jia is a talented , thoughtful filmmaker who pursues stories that explore the conflict between institutional systems and individuals victimized by those institutions in the name of protecting the social order.
Conviction can be found on Amazon Prime in the US for all of you to watch and will be coming to Canada later in the year
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