Unseen
Year: 2016
Country:
USA
Run Time:
76 minutes
WORLD PREMIERE
The 2009 arrest and subsequent trial of Anthony Sowell gripped the city of Cleveland and the nation. Having kidnapped, raped, and murdered 11 women from the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, Sowell then buried his victims’ bodies within the floorboards, walls, and grounds of his home where they were eventually found by police. These circumstances led to a media blitz that asked how an unemployed ex-convict could so easily get away with such horrible crimes for so long. UNSEEN is a documentary that works to set the record straight on that very topic, including interviews with family members of the victims and the courageous women who managed to escape. In each of the survivors’ stories, going to the police resulted in being dismissed or half-heartedly investigated all because the women were drug addicts. Intense and agonizing, UNSEEN gives an unflinching and unapologetic look at a system of justice that has clearly lifted the blindfold and judges books based on covers. How many women died in the house of horrors because of a discriminatory attitude towards the poor and drug addicted? Unfortunately, we may never know. –T.W.
CIFF40 Screenings
Tower City Cinemas
Saturday, April 02, 2016 at 11:15 AM
- with FilmForum
Sunday, April 03, 2016 at 6:20 PM
- This screening is on Stand By.
Monday, April 04, 2016 at 12:10 PM
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African Diaspora
Competitions
Local Heroes Competition
ReelWomenDirect Award for Excellence in Directing by a Woman
Related Daily Postings
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Director
Laura Paglin
Filmography
"The Nightowls of Coventry" (2004)—27th CIFF, "Facing Forward" (2011)—35th CIFF, UNSEEN (2016)
Producers
Laura Paglin, Christopher S. Rech
Cinematography
Kahlil Pedizisai
Editing
Nels Bangerter
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