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Career+Civic: Community Film Screening and Discussion of 'Crime After Crime'

Mar 23
2023
6:30pm - 9:00pm
On Campus Event - Old Library, Room 110
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Join us for a community film screening of Yoav Potash's award-winning documentary Crime After Crime. Discussion with the filmmaker to follow. 

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About the Film

In one of the most compelling and highly awarded documentary films of all time, filmmaker Yoav Potash follows two real estate lawyers as they wage a legal battle to free Deborah Peagler, a survivor of sex trafficking, from a life sentence in a California prison. This deeply emotional film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, and earned over 20 audience awards and jury prizes, including a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the National Board of Review’s Freedom of Expression Award, and six audience awards. The documentary had a national primetime broadcast on the Oprah Winfrey Network, streamed on Netflix for two years, and is now available on Amazon Prime.

Meet the Filmmaker

Yoav Potash is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. Alongside his award-winning film Crime After Crime, he launched an engagement campaign that changed domestic violence law in multiple U.S. states, including New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California. Yoav previously directed the San Francisco IndieFest Jury Prize-winning documentary Food Stamped, which was nationally broadcast on Pivot, Participant Media’s cable/satellite network. He is currently producing and directing a partially animated documentary entitled Love, Murder and Miracles, about Polish/Jewish relations in one small town, before, during, and after World War II. Other upcoming projects include Diary from the Ashes, a film funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, about the diary of an imaginative teenage girl whose handwritten notebook was discovered in the rubble of Auschwitz. Yoav is an alumnus of UC Berkeley, where he received the university’s top prize in creative writing.

CAREER AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT CENTER

Audience: BMC Community
Type(s): Discussion, Film, Special or Campuswide Event
Contact:
Liv Raddatz

Bryn Mawr College welcomes the full participation of all individuals in all aspects of campus life. Should you wish to request a disability-related accommodation for this event, please contact the event sponsor/coordinator. Requests should be made as early as possible.