Ladies and Gentlemen…

For those of you who have yet to see it, tonight’s the night! I’m happy to report we’ve been getting great reviews. Today The New York Times called An American Crime ‘one of the best television movies to appear in years.’ I will add links here to some of these reviews over the next few days.

Feel free to keep posting questions — I will try to answer all that I can in a timely fashion. Consider it like a Q&A after a screening.

Now, in keeping with that idea, and at the risk of sounding pretentious, I’d like to introduce the film the way I did at Sundance:

When we started making this movie, we were all very afraid. Afraid of telling such a sad and horrific story. Afraid of having to experience that story, even though we would be experiencing it through make-believe. But there seemed to be a presence guiding us, and the process, every step of the way. Something in the ether that made us realize, in a way that’s unexplainable — what we were doing, had to be done.

I hope when you watch this film you’ll see, hear and feel that same presence. And you’ll come to understand why we all felt this movie had to be made.

So here is our film. A testament to a tragedy that should never have happened. Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you An American Crime…

to stephanie…

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