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Making an ExonereeMaking an Exoneree

Making an Exoneree

October 7-11, 2021

Virtual Screening

Making an Exoneree

Rob Dorfmann & Cindy Dorfmann (Dir), 207 minutes, USA, NY Premiere

This nonfiction film follows the journey of 16 Georgetown undergraduate students who reinvestigate five wrongful conviction cases and battle the system to successfully help to free a man who was incarcerated for over 25 – Buffalo’s own Valentino Dixon.

Watch the filmmaker Q+A here!

  • Video from Making an Exoneree

    Directed by: Rob Dorfmann and Cindy Dorfmann

    Still from Making an Exoneree

    Still from Making an Exoneree

    Directed by: Rob Dorfmann and Cindy Dorfmann

October 7-11, 2021

Virtual Screening

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