Film and Digital Media
FILM 174A Reasonable Doubts: Making an Exoneree Part A
Part 1 of an intensive two-quarter course sequence in which UCSC students collaborate with students from Georgetown University to reinvestigate and document five cases of wrongful conviction. Small teams of students from both universities work together as investigative journalists, filmmakers, and social justice activists, producing short documentary films, websites, and social media campaigns providing humanizing portraits of the lives, families, and complicated legal cases of five wrongfully convicted incarcerated people. Commitment to enrollment in FILM 174B in the following quarter is required. Enrollment is by application; application materials available during the last three weeks of preceding quarter. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.