When A Witness Recants Screening
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🎬 South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers
When A Witness Recants
📅 Sunday, September 20
🕒 3:00 PM
📍 Dothan Opera House
🎟 Admission: $7
Presented as part of the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, this powerful documentary brings award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter to Dothan for an unforgettable afternoon of film and conversation.
In 1983, future bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates learned of the murder of a Baltimore middle school student. Decades later, that tragic case is revisited, revealing how false testimony led to the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of three teenagers for 36 years. Through compelling storytelling and investigative journalism, When A Witness Recants explores justice, truth, and the lasting impact of wrongful convictions.
Following the screening, stay for a live Q&A with director Dawn Porter, offering audiences a rare opportunity to hear directly from one of today's most celebrated documentary filmmakers.
Dawn Porter is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and founder of Trilogy Films. Her work has appeared on ESPN, Netflix, HBO, PBS, Hulu, and Apple TV+, and she was recently awarded the National Humanities Medal and the International Documentary Association's Career Achievement Award.
This screening is part of the 50th Anniversary Season of the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, one of the nation's longest-running programs connecting independent filmmakers with communities across the South.
🎟 Tickets are $7 and are available at DothanOperaHouse.com or at the Dothan Civic Center Box Office.
Stay after the film for a live Q&A with Dawn Porter and experience documentary filmmaking the way it was meant to be—shared, discussed, and experienced together.
When A Witness Recants
📅 Sunday, September 20
🕒 3:00 PM
📍 Dothan Opera House
🎟 Admission: $7
Presented as part of the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, this powerful documentary brings award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter to Dothan for an unforgettable afternoon of film and conversation.
In 1983, future bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates learned of the murder of a Baltimore middle school student. Decades later, that tragic case is revisited, revealing how false testimony led to the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of three teenagers for 36 years. Through compelling storytelling and investigative journalism, When A Witness Recants explores justice, truth, and the lasting impact of wrongful convictions.
Following the screening, stay for a live Q&A with director Dawn Porter, offering audiences a rare opportunity to hear directly from one of today's most celebrated documentary filmmakers.
Dawn Porter is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and founder of Trilogy Films. Her work has appeared on ESPN, Netflix, HBO, PBS, Hulu, and Apple TV+, and she was recently awarded the National Humanities Medal and the International Documentary Association's Career Achievement Award.
This screening is part of the 50th Anniversary Season of the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, one of the nation's longest-running programs connecting independent filmmakers with communities across the South.
🎟 Tickets are $7 and are available at DothanOperaHouse.com or at the Dothan Civic Center Box Office.
Stay after the film for a live Q&A with Dawn Porter and experience documentary filmmaking the way it was meant to be—shared, discussed, and experienced together.
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115 N. Saint Andrews St., Dothan, AL, United States, Alabama 36303
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