After Innocence is a 2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 documentary film about men who were exonerated from death row by DNA evidence

Genetic fingerprinting

DNA profiling is a technique employed by forensic scientists to assist in the identification of individuals by their respective DNA profiles. DNA profiles are encrypted sets of numbers that reflect a person's DNA makeup, which can also be used as the person's identifier...

. Directed by Jessica Sanders, the film took the Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

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The featured exonerees are Dennis Maher; Calvin Willis; Scott Hornoff; Wilton Dedge; Vincent Moto; Nick Yarris; and Herman Atkins. Also featured are Barry Scheck

Barry Scheck

Barry C. Scheck is an American lawyer. He received national media attention while serving on O.J. Simpson's defense team, winning an acquittal in the highly publicized murder case. Scheck is the director of the Innocence Project and a professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York...

 and Peter Neufeld

Peter Neufeld

Peter Neufeld is an American lawyer and is most famous as a cofounder, with Barry Scheck, of the Innocence Project, located at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law...

 of the Innocence Project

Innocence Project

An Innocence Project is one of a number of non-profit legal organizations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand dedicated to proving the innocence of wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing, and to reforming the criminal justice systems to...

 and Lola Vollen of the Life After Exoneration Program.

Awards

• Sundance Film Festival
  Sundance Film Festival
  The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
  
   -- Special Jury Prize; Grand Jury Prize (nominated)
• Seattle International Film Festival
  Seattle International Film Festival
  The Seattle International Film Festival , held annually in Seattle, Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees...
  
   -- Women in Cinema Lena Sharpe Award
• Newport Beach Film Festival
  Newport Beach Film Festival
  The Newport Beach Film Festival is a film festival in the United States held in Newport Beach, California, that showcases more than 350 films to more than 30,000 attendees annually....
  
   -- Special Jury Prize
• Independent Film Festival of Boston
  Independent Film Festival of Boston
  The Independent Film Festival of Boston is a not for profit film festival in Boston, Massachusetts.- History :The Independent Film Festival of Boston was created in 2003 by the non-profit organization the Independent Film Society of Boston. The festival takes place each April in the Boston area's...
  
   -- Audience Award
• Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
  Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
  The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. Each spring Full Frame welcomes filmmakers and film lovers from around the world to historic downtown Durham, North Carolina for a four-day, morning to midnight...
  
   -- Content + Intent = Change Award
• Nantucket Film Festival
  Nantucket Film Festival
  The Nantucket Film Festival is a film festival founded in 1996 to promote the cultural awareness and appreciation of the art of screenwriting in the world of cinema. Nantucket Film Festival screens a world-class program of independent, studio-produced, foreign, documentary, and short films in every...
  
  -- Best Storytelling In A Documentary

External links

• Homepage
• After Innocence at Working Films
• "For the Wrongly Convicted, New Trials Once the Cell Opens", The New York Times, January 25, 2005. (PDF link)