On May 3, a long-awaited parole hearing will take place in Tallahassee, Florida, to determine if Leo Schofield will finally be released from prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder more than three decades ago.
In 1987, Leo, then 21 years old, was devastated when his teenage wife Michelle was found dead in a phosphate mining pit in Lakeland, Florida. Two years later, Leo was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, where he has remained despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence unearthed and revealed on the Lava for Good podcast Bone Valley by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Gilbert King and producer Kelsey Decker — evidence pointing to Michelle’s actual killer.
Fifteen years after Leo’s conviction, previously unidentified fingerprints from Michelle’s car matched Jeremy Scott — a troubled teen with an extensive history of violence who lived near the young couple at the time. Scott has since confessed to Michelle’s murder a number of times,...
In 1987, Leo, then 21 years old, was devastated when his teenage wife Michelle was found dead in a phosphate mining pit in Lakeland, Florida. Two years later, Leo was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, where he has remained despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence unearthed and revealed on the Lava for Good podcast Bone Valley by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Gilbert King and producer Kelsey Decker — evidence pointing to Michelle’s actual killer.
Fifteen years after Leo’s conviction, previously unidentified fingerprints from Michelle’s car matched Jeremy Scott — a troubled teen with an extensive history of violence who lived near the young couple at the time. Scott has since confessed to Michelle’s murder a number of times,...
- 4/11/2023
- Podnews.net
Other winners at the 15th Cph:dox are Wild Relatives, Laila At The Bridge and False Confessions.
Cph:Dox’s top award, the Dox:award was presented tonight to Marcus Lindeen’s The Raft (Swe-Den-us-Ger).
The film is about a social experiment in 1973, when 11 people were brought together on a raft for three months, sailing the Atlantic Ocean, so their behaviour could be studied by a radical Mexican anthropologist.
As well as using archive footage, Lindeen reconstructed the raft and reunited the participants together again in a film studio to look back on their experiences. The replica raft was also shown as...
Cph:Dox’s top award, the Dox:award was presented tonight to Marcus Lindeen’s The Raft (Swe-Den-us-Ger).
The film is about a social experiment in 1973, when 11 people were brought together on a raft for three months, sailing the Atlantic Ocean, so their behaviour could be studied by a radical Mexican anthropologist.
As well as using archive footage, Lindeen reconstructed the raft and reunited the participants together again in a film studio to look back on their experiences. The replica raft was also shown as...
- 3/23/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Louis Garrel as Dorante and Isabelle Huppert as Araminte, in False Confessions, director Luc Bondy’s French-language adaption of Marivaux’s play “Les Fausses Confidences.” Photo courtesy of Big World Pictures ©
Romantic comedy with a French accent and a love letter to theater both describe the French-language False Confessions (Les Fausses Confidences), the last film by Swiss film, theater and opera director Luc Bondy. Bondy re-sets Marivaux’s 18th century classical play about love, “Les Fausses Confidences,” in modern-day Paris, and stars Oscar-nominee Isabelle Huppert (Elle) and Louis Garrel as the would-be lovers at the center of all the twists and deceits.
Fans of director Bondy, writer Marivaux, the film’s star Isabelle Huppert or just theater in general, will find much to like in this enjoyable, clever film adaption. Passions, doubts, jealousies and tempers are all aroused in this dizzy, funny tale, in a production that blends film and theater in a creative fashion.
Romantic comedy with a French accent and a love letter to theater both describe the French-language False Confessions (Les Fausses Confidences), the last film by Swiss film, theater and opera director Luc Bondy. Bondy re-sets Marivaux’s 18th century classical play about love, “Les Fausses Confidences,” in modern-day Paris, and stars Oscar-nominee Isabelle Huppert (Elle) and Louis Garrel as the would-be lovers at the center of all the twists and deceits.
Fans of director Bondy, writer Marivaux, the film’s star Isabelle Huppert or just theater in general, will find much to like in this enjoyable, clever film adaption. Passions, doubts, jealousies and tempers are all aroused in this dizzy, funny tale, in a production that blends film and theater in a creative fashion.
- 7/14/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Big World Pictures
Founded in 2013 and run almost single-handedly by Jonathan Howell, Big World Pictures is a non-profit distribution outfit dedicated to bringing the best in world cinema to film enthusiasts across the United States.
“As an expansion of the mission of our critically-acclaimed short film distribution wing, The World According to Shorts, Big World Pictures is dedicated to bringing the best in world cinema to film enthusiasts across the United States. We acquire only three to four feature films annually for theatrical release, in addition to several short films (to be released through The World According to Shorts), and ten to twelve feature films annually for video/VOD/TV release.”
Opening at Laemmle’s Royal in L.A. day and date with New York’s Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on June 23, Luc Bondy’s modern-day adaptation of the classic Marivaux play, “False Confessions”, starring Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel and Bulle Ogier...
Founded in 2013 and run almost single-handedly by Jonathan Howell, Big World Pictures is a non-profit distribution outfit dedicated to bringing the best in world cinema to film enthusiasts across the United States.
“As an expansion of the mission of our critically-acclaimed short film distribution wing, The World According to Shorts, Big World Pictures is dedicated to bringing the best in world cinema to film enthusiasts across the United States. We acquire only three to four feature films annually for theatrical release, in addition to several short films (to be released through The World According to Shorts), and ten to twelve feature films annually for video/VOD/TV release.”
Opening at Laemmle’s Royal in L.A. day and date with New York’s Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on June 23, Luc Bondy’s modern-day adaptation of the classic Marivaux play, “False Confessions”, starring Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel and Bulle Ogier...
- 6/6/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
“West of the Jordan River”, “Bones of Contention”, “False Confessions”…Created by a pool of producers in 1996, Doc & Film International was actively in selling tv documentaries. In 2008 when Daniela Elstner joined Doc & Film as head of the company and shareholder the activities of the company expanded to international sales of feature films and feature length documentaries, working with directors from all over the world and literally premiering their films everywhere in the world.“West of the Jordan River” by Amos Gitai
Their doc “West of the Jordan River” is selected for the upcoming Directors Fortnight in Cannes. Directed by Amos Gitai (“Rabin”, “Free Zone”). who eturns to the occupied territories of Palestine for the first time since his 1982 documentary “Field Diary”, “West of the Jordan River” describes the efforts of citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation. Gitai’s film shows the human ties woven by the military,...
Their doc “West of the Jordan River” is selected for the upcoming Directors Fortnight in Cannes. Directed by Amos Gitai (“Rabin”, “Free Zone”). who eturns to the occupied territories of Palestine for the first time since his 1982 documentary “Field Diary”, “West of the Jordan River” describes the efforts of citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation. Gitai’s film shows the human ties woven by the military,...
- 5/10/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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