An unreal dream : the Michael Morton story / a documentary film by Al Reinert ; presented by Blue Bandana Productions LLC & Glass House Productions LLC ; written and directed by Al Reinert ; co-directed by Nellie Gonzalez, John Dean ; produced by Marcy Garriott, John Dean, Al Reinert.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Dean, John (Film director), director, producer.

Garriott, Marcy, producer.

Gonzalez, Nellie, director, narrator.

Reinert, Al, director, producer.

Alexander Street Press.

Blue Bandana Productions LLC, production company.

First Run Features (Firm), film distributor.

Glass House Productions, production company.

Series:

Filmakers Library online

Filmakers library online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morton, Michael, 1954---Trials, litigation, etc.

Morton, Michael.

Morton, Michael, 1954-.

Innocence Project.

False imprisonment--Texas--Case studies.

False imprisonment.

Judicial error--Texas--Case studies.

Judicial error.

Murder--Texas--Williamson County--Case studies.

Murder.

Trials (Murder)--Texas--Case studies.

Trials (Murder).

Texas.

Texas--Williamson County.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Case studies.

Trials, litigation, etc.

Video recordings.

Trial and arbitral proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (92 minutes).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : First Run Features, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

In 1986 Michael Morton's wife Christine is brutally murdered in front of their only child, and Michael is convicted of the crime. Locked away in Texas prisons for a quarter century, estranged from his son, he has years to ponder questions of justice and innocence, truth and fate. Though he is virtually invisible to society, the Innocence Project and Michael's pro bono attorney spend years fighting for the right to test DNA evidence found at the murder scene. Their discoveries ultimately reveal that the price of a wrongful conviction goes well beyond one man's loss of freedom. Director Al Reinert is a two-time Academy Award nominee, as a documentary filmmaker (For All Mankind, which won the documentary Jury and Audience Awards when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1989) and as a screenwriter (Apollo 13).

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed April 19, 2016).

OCLC:

878941188

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.