Director Garrett Bradley was working on a short documentary together with Sibil Fox Richardson, an entrepreneur and mother of six who was still fighting, after 20 years, to get her husband Rob out of prison, when Richardson gave Bradley a whole bag of mini-DV tapes chronicling her family through the years. That’s when Bradley knew this was going to be a feature instead. The grainy footage is mixed with a crisply shot portrait (also in black-and-white) of where Richardson and her kids are now in life. Ultimately touching, even if the film takes a long time before successfully creating a bond between the audience and the family. Relevant as an illustration of the worst aspects of the U.S. legal system.
2020-U.S. 81 min. B/W. Directed by Garrett Bradley.
Trivia: Co-executive produced by Davis Guggenheim.
