{{More citations needed|date=July 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = After Innocence | image = After Innocence FilmPoster.jpeg | caption = | director = Jessica Sanders | writer = Jessica Sanders<br>Marc H. Simon | producer = Jessica Sanders<br>Marc H. Simon | starring = | cinematography = Shana Hagan<br>Buddy Squires<br>Bestor Cram<br>Bob Richmond | editing = | music = Charles Bernstein | studio = American Film Foundation<ref name=afi>{{cite web|title=After Innocence (2005)|website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films|access-date=29 March 2022|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/63300-AFTER-INNOCENCE?sid=2da877fe-ea09-4227-9192-4b00691bbf31&sr=10.72428&cp=1&pos=0}}</ref><br>Showtime Networks<ref name=afi /> | distributor = New Yorker Films | released = {{Film date|2005|01||Sundance|ref1=<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/awards/after-innocence-2-1200528112/|title=After Innocence|date=8 February 2005|last=Foundas|first=Scott|magazine=Variety}}</ref>}} | runtime = 95 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }} '''''After Innocence''''' is a 2005 American documentary film about men who were exonerated from death row by DNA evidence. Directed by Jessica Sanders, the film won the Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Brussat|first1=Frederic|last2=Brussat|first2=Mary Ann|title=After Innocence {{!}} Film Review |website=Spirituality & Practice|url=https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/reviews/view/10044|access-date=2021-01-18|language=en}}</ref>
The featured exonerees are Dennis Maher; Calvin Willis; Scott Hornoff; Wilton Dedge; Vincent Moto; Nick Yarris; Ronald Cotton; and Herman Atkins. Also featured are Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld of the Innocence Project and Lola Vollen of the Life After Exoneration Program.
==Awards== *Sundance Film Festival—Special Jury Prize; Grand Jury Prize (nominated) *Seattle International Film Festival—Women in Cinema Lena Sharpe Award *Newport Beach Film Festival—Special Jury Prize *Independent Film Festival of Boston—Audience Award *Full Frame Documentary Film Festival—Content + Intent = Change Award *Nantucket Film Festival—Best Storytelling In A Documentary
==See also== * List of wrongful convictions in the United States * Innocence Project * List of miscarriage of justice cases * Race in the United States criminal justice system * Capital punishment in the United States * Innocent prisoner's dilemma * Miscarriage of justice * False confession * Overturned convictions in the United States * Capital punishment debate in the United States * List of exonerated death row inmates
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==External links== *[http://www.afterinnocence.net/ Homepage] *[https://archive.today/20130416044337/http://www.workingfilms.org/afterinnocence ''After Innocence''] at [http://www.workingfilms.org Working Films] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060505031846/http://www.afterinnocence.com/NYTimesAfterInnocence.pdf "For the Wrongly Convicted, New Trials Once the Cell Opens"], The New York Times, January 25, 2005. (PDF link) * {{IMDb title|0436039|After Innocence}}
Category:2005 films Category:American documentary films Category:Films scored by Charles Bernstein Category:Sundance Film Festival award–winning films Category:Documentary films about capital punishment in the United States Category:2005 documentary films Category:Wrongful convictions Category:2005 English-language films Category:2005 American films Category:English-language documentary films Category:Innocence Project
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