Series/Themes: TV on the Big Screen, zEmerging Artist Series, zRace in America
Film Year: 2017
Locations: USA
Film Length: 46 min.
Director: Kelly Loudenberg
The VFF will present an episode from Netflix’s true crime documentary series called “8th and H” about a notorious 1984 murder case in Washington, D.C. in which a group of eight teens were unjustly convicted, six of whom remain in prison to this day largely due to a connection to a “gang” that never actually existed. Discussion with creator-director Kelly Loudenberg and executive producers Steve Robillard, James Graves, and Jeff Bumgarner, moderated by Deirdre Enright (The Innocence Project at UVA School of Law)
Presented by James Madison’s Montpelier
Supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts
7:30 PM
Downtown Mall : Vinegar Hill Theatre