There's no question that my reaction to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case was influenced by having seen Lisa Jackson's Sex Crimes Unit, which played at the Los Angeles Film Festival before beginning its run on HBO June 20. Jackson got unprecedented access to the respected Unit of the New York District Attorney's office that specializes in sex crimes. You see how the attorneys work under unit chief Lisa Friel, who unexpectedly announced last week that she will be leaving the division. Wouldn't you if your boss snatched away the highest profile rape case to come your way, one that your division was particularly equipped to handle? This huge loss for the NY D.A's office comes at a time when the Nyt is questioning why Da Cyrus ...
- 7/3/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Lisa Friel, the star of Lisa Jackson's HBO documentary "Sex Crimes Unit" and its leader for the last 10 years, is leaving the department. The film premiered last month at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Jackson had unprecedented access in making the documentary, which features Friel and her staff in frank discussions about their strategies in prosecuting actual cases. HBO first aired the documentary June 20. According to the New ...
- 7/3/2011
- Indiewire
Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed by: Lisa F. Jackson
Featuring: Lisa Friel, Linda Fairstein, Natasha Alexenko, Martha Bashford, Coleen Balbert, Melissa Mourges, Robert M. Morgenthau and Kimberly Summers
Award-winning documentarian Lisa F. Jackson follows up “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo” by exploring similar themes closer to home, spending seven months with Chief Lisa Friel and the dedicated prosecutors in Manhattan’s Sex Crimes Unit. On any given day, 300 cases are pending, but Jackson focuses on a handful of them, including an abduction at a nightclub caught on tape, two attacks in one night by a cab driver and the rape of a prostitute. The closing of a 1993 cold case also demonstrates the power of DNA evidence to get an indictment without even knowing the suspect’s name.
In the film the ADAs joke about “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” how...
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed by: Lisa F. Jackson
Featuring: Lisa Friel, Linda Fairstein, Natasha Alexenko, Martha Bashford, Coleen Balbert, Melissa Mourges, Robert M. Morgenthau and Kimberly Summers
Award-winning documentarian Lisa F. Jackson follows up “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo” by exploring similar themes closer to home, spending seven months with Chief Lisa Friel and the dedicated prosecutors in Manhattan’s Sex Crimes Unit. On any given day, 300 cases are pending, but Jackson focuses on a handful of them, including an abduction at a nightclub caught on tape, two attacks in one night by a cab driver and the rape of a prostitute. The closing of a 1993 cold case also demonstrates the power of DNA evidence to get an indictment without even knowing the suspect’s name.
In the film the ADAs joke about “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” how...
- 6/24/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed by: Lisa F. Jackson
Featuring: Lisa Friel, Linda Fairstein, Natasha Alexenko, Martha Bashford, Coleen Balbert, Melissa Mourges, Robert M. Morgenthau and Kimberly Summers
Award-winning documentarian Lisa F. Jackson follows up “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo” by exploring similar themes closer to home, spending seven months with Chief Lisa Friel and the dedicated prosecutors in Manhattan’s Sex Crimes Unit. On any given day, 300 cases are pending, but Jackson focuses on a handful of them, including an abduction at a nightclub caught on tape, two attacks in one night by a cab driver and the rape of a prostitute. The closing of a 1993 cold case also demonstrates the power of DNA evidence to get an indictment without even knowing the suspect’s name.
In the film the ADAs joke about “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” how...
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed by: Lisa F. Jackson
Featuring: Lisa Friel, Linda Fairstein, Natasha Alexenko, Martha Bashford, Coleen Balbert, Melissa Mourges, Robert M. Morgenthau and Kimberly Summers
Award-winning documentarian Lisa F. Jackson follows up “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo” by exploring similar themes closer to home, spending seven months with Chief Lisa Friel and the dedicated prosecutors in Manhattan’s Sex Crimes Unit. On any given day, 300 cases are pending, but Jackson focuses on a handful of them, including an abduction at a nightclub caught on tape, two attacks in one night by a cab driver and the rape of a prostitute. The closing of a 1993 cold case also demonstrates the power of DNA evidence to get an indictment without even knowing the suspect’s name.
In the film the ADAs joke about “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” how...
- 6/24/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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