by In Pursuit of Justice | Jan 20, 2019 | Documentary Filmmaking, film festivals, NCCAI
It was late May. Our premiere at RiverRun was a little more than two weeks away and my computer was crashing. No matter what I tried I could not get it to load the files that Jon, our graphic designer, had given me, that would finally let us “lock” the...
by In Pursuit of Justice | Mar 3, 2017 | Documentary Filmmaking, Donors, Fundraising Event, Other News
We’ve got a busy month in March! We’re screening our film three times. Why? Well, you always learn something watching your work with other people, we still want more (and more) people to know about Greg Taylor’s story, and we need to make sure we...
by In Pursuit of Justice | Feb 14, 2017 | Criminal Justice Reform, Innocence, Wrongful Conviction
fox46 in Charlotte has a story today about the case of Ronnie Long. Watch Ronnie Long’s story here. Long was convicted in 1976 for a rape he has maintained for 40-years he did not commit. The Duke Innocence Project has taken on Ronnie’s case. But what can...
by In Pursuit of Justice | Feb 10, 2017 | Documentary Filmmaking
Here’s an interesting article from Filmmaker Magazine – well, the on-line version anyway. It’s part of a series of articles by Paula Bernstein who is thinking about the story line of her documentary short. Read the article here. I hope it’s not...
by In Pursuit of Justice | Feb 4, 2017 | Characters
On September 25, 1991 Jacquetta Thomas was brutally murdered. By the evening of the next day Greg Taylor and Johnny Beck had been arrested and charged with her murder. On April 19, 1993 Greg Taylor was convicted of her murder and was sentenced to life in prison. At...
by In Pursuit of Justice | Jan 25, 2017 | Criminal Justice Reform
Wrongful Convictions Study after study has shown that there are six main reasons for wrongful convictions. • Bad lawyering • Snitches • Eyewitness Identification • Government misconduct • False confessions • Junk science When we first decided to tell Greg’s story we...
by In Pursuit of Justice | Jan 22, 2017 | Fundraising Event
We held a work in progress screening at the Hanesbrands Theatre here in Winston-Salem on January 5th. Over 160 people attended. Among them were some folks from the press. Brian Clarey from Twin City Beat, who had written about Greg before, wrote the cover article for...
by In Pursuit of Justice | Jan 20, 2017 | Criminal Justice Reform
In Pursuit of Justice – how criminal justice reform freed Greg Taylor That’s a pretty impressive title. Our film tells two stories, the first, and by far most interesting, is the personal tragedy of Greg Taylor and his family; the second, no less important, but way...
by Swiftwater | Jan 20, 2017 | Donors, Fundraising Event
MONDAY FEB 6th 5:30- 8pm/ Drop-in “THANK YOU” EVENT: We’re headed to the Center for Design Innovation to party with all our “ROUGH CUT RIDERS” – those folks helping IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE have a 2017 premiere by making donations from...
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