Please support the Los Angeles premiere of AFTER INNOCENCE, the debut feature by Jessica Sanders, January 13 – 19, 2006, at the NUART THEATRE (11272 Santa Monica Blvd, West LA).

AFTER INNOCENCE has been short-listed for the 2006 Academy Awards. It tells the dramatic story of the exonerated -- innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and released after DNA proves their innocence.   The film premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Sundance Jury Award.

Q & A's opening weekend with Director Jessica Sanders and the exonerated men featured in the film.

We will be hosting an Opening Night Reception at GR2 (2062 Sawtelle) following the Friday the 13th 7:30 pm screening.

To ensure the national impact of AFTER INNOCENCE, we need to pack the theater during the film's critical opening week! Please encourage your friends, family and colleagues to support. If you have groups that want to come, please purchase advance group discounted tickets.
To purchase tickets in advance visit www.moviefone.com. For groups of 20 or more Advance Group Ticket Discounts Available at 310-312-2355.

For more info on AFTER INNOCENCE opening across the country please visit http://AfterInnocence.com

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Jessica Sanders is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker who works in fiction and non-fiction productions. She produced the film Sing! which received Oscar and Emmy nominations in 2002 and aired nationally on PBS. Her previous film, Los Angels, a narrative film that she wrote,
produced, and directed, played at numerous festivals and received the Gold Plaque Award at the Chicago International Festival, the Lagniappe Best Short Film at the New Orleans Festival, among other awards. Sanders was an Associate Producer on the 2003 Oscar Winning Documentary Short Film Twin Towers and Series Associate Producer and Camera Operator on Dick Wolf's NBC documentary series Crime & Punishment. Sanders is an alumna of the Independent Feature Project's Project Involve and the filmmaker Producer's Lab, where she is among a select group of filmmakers chosen to develop Independent film projects. Sanders is currently developing documentary and narrative feature film projects.

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AFTER INNOCENCE

2006 Locarno International Film Festival Human Rights Section

Winner:
2005 Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize
2005 Seattle International Film Festival, Women in Cinema Lena Sharpe Award
2005 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Content + Intent = Change
2005 Nantucket Film Festival, Storytelling in a Documentary
2005 Boston Independent Film Festival, Audience Award
2005 Newport Beach Film Festival, CA, Special Jury Prize

Official Selection:
2005 Chicago International Film Festival
2005 Tribeca Film Festival
2005 Philadelphia Film Festival
2005 Newport Film Festival, RI
2005 Florida Film Festival, Orlando
2005 Athens International Film & Video Festival
2005 Hawaii International Film Festival
2005 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
2005 Milwaukee International Film Festival
2005 Miami International Film Festival
2005 Vancouver International Film Festival