# Herman's House

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{{short description|2012 film by Angad Singh Bhalla}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Herman's House
| image          = 
| caption        = 
| director       = Angad Singh Bhalla
| producer       = [Ed Barreveld](/source/Ed_Barreveld)<br>Loring McAlpin<br>Lisa Valencia-Svensson 
| writer         = 
| starring       = [Jackie Sumell](/source/Jackie_Sumell)<br>[Herman Wallace](/source/Herman_Wallace_(criminal))
| music          = [Ken Myhr](/source/Ken_Myhr)
| cinematography = [Iris Ng](/source/Iris_Ng)
| editing        = Ricardo Acosta
| studio         = Storyline Entertainment
| distributor    = First Run Features
| released       = {{Film date|2012|3|2|[True/False](/source/True%2FFalse_Film_Festival)}}
| runtime        = 80 minutes
| country        = Canada<br>United Kingdom<br>United States
| language       = English
| budget         = 
}}

'''''Herman's House''''' is a documentary film, directed by Angad Singh Bhalla and released in 2012.<ref>Mark Jenkins, [https://www.npr.org/2013/04/18/177331108/building-a-home-for-a-client-who-cant-live-in-it "Building A Home For A Client Who Can't Live In It"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013170707/https://www.npr.org/2013/04/18/177331108/building-a-home-for-a-client-who-cant-live-in-it |date=October 13, 2023 }}. [NPR](/source/NPR), April 18, 2013.</ref> An American, British and Canadian coproduction, the film profiles Herman Wallace, a member of the [Angola Three](/source/Angola_Three) who had been in prison for over 40 years after his shorter prison term for bank robbery was extended with a disputed conviction for a murder he did not commit, and [Jackie Sumell](/source/Jackie_Sumell), a conceptual artist who has launched a project of building the dream house Wallace wishes he could live in if he is ever released from prison.<ref name=ritchie>Kevin Ritchie, [https://playbackonline.ca/2012/05/03/hot-docs-2012-reimagining-the-prison-flick-with-hermans-house/ "Hot Docs 2012: Reimagining the prison flick with Herman’s House"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250127204554/https://playbackonline.ca/2012/05/03/hot-docs-2012-reimagining-the-prison-flick-with-hermans-house/ |date=January 27, 2025 }}. ''[Playback](/source/Playback_(magazine))'', May 3, 2012.</ref>

Wallace is never shown in the film, and instead is heard only in recorded telephone conversations with Sumell.<ref>Stephen Holden, [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/movies/hermans-house-directed-by-angad-bhalla.html "Dreams From His Cell"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013170346/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/movies/hermans-house-directed-by-angad-bhalla.html |date=October 13, 2023 }}. ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)'', April 18, 2013.</ref>

==Distribution==
The film premiered at the 2012 [True/False Film Festival](/source/True%2FFalse_Film_Festival),<ref>Hannah Spaar, [https://www.voxmagazine.com/true-false/t-f-review-hermans-house/article_6f90776f-4338-5d41-bb24-7fd36ad13f70.html "T/F Review: Herman's House"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013165852/https://www.voxmagazine.com/true-false/t-f-review-hermans-house/article_6f90776f-4338-5d41-bb24-7fd36ad13f70.html |date=October 13, 2023 }}. ''Vox Magazine'', March 2, 2012.</ref> and had its Canadian premiere at the 2012 [Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival](/source/Hot_Docs_Canadian_International_Documentary_Festival).<ref name=ritchie/>

It was broadcast in July 2013 as an episode of the [PBS](/source/PBS) documentary series ''[POV](/source/POV_(TV_series))''.<ref>Fausto Giovanny Pinto, [https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/pbs-to-air-documentary-on-ny-artist-s-project-l02714 "PBS to air documentary on NY artist's project"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013180418/https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/pbs-to-air-documentary-on-ny-artist-s-project-l02714 |date=October 13, 2023 }}. ''[Newsday](/source/Newsday)'', July 7, 2013.</ref>

==Awards==
Bhalla was the winner of the Magnus Isacsson Award at the 2012 [Montreal International Documentary Festival](/source/Montreal_International_Documentary_Festival).<ref>T'Cha Dunlevy, "A fitting finale for late director Magnus Isacsson; Weeks before his death he was happily involved". ''[Montreal Gazette](/source/Montreal_Gazette)'', November 23, 2012.</ref>

The film was a [Donald Brittain Award](/source/Donald_Brittain_Award) nominee for best social or political documentary at the [2nd Canadian Screen Awards](/source/2nd_Canadian_Screen_Awards) in 2014.<ref>Manori Ravindran, [https://realscreen.com/2014/01/13/watermark-my-prairie-home-up-for-canadian-screen-awards/ "'Watermark,' 'My Prairie Home' up for Canadian Screen Awards"]. ''[RealScreen](/source/RealScreen)'', January 13, 2014.</ref> Ricardo Acosta was nominated for Best Editing in a Documentary Program or Series, and [Ken Myhr](/source/Ken_Myhr) received a nomination for Best Music for a Non-Fiction Program or Series.

The film won an [Emmy Award](/source/Emmy_Award) for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming at the 2014 [News and Documentary Emmy Awards](/source/News_and_Documentary_Emmy_Awards).<ref>Julianna Cummins, [https://playbackonline.ca/2014/10/01/cbc-nfb-win-intl-emmy-awards/ "NFB, Herman’s House win Emmy Awards"]. ''[Playback](/source/Playback_(magazine))'', October 1, 2014.</ref>

==Legacy==
Following Wallace's death of cancer in late 2013, Bhalla and digital media producer Ted Biggs created the interactive documentary project ''The Deeper They Bury Me: A Call from Herman Wallace'', which was based around Wallace's time in [solitary confinement](/source/solitary_confinement), for the [National Film Board of Canada](/source/National_Film_Board_of_Canada).<ref>Lauren Wissot, [https://globalcomment.com/an-interactive-journey-through-solitary-confinement-the-deeper-they-bury-me-a-call-from-herman-wallace/ "An Interactive Journey Through Solitary Confinement: 'The Deeper They Bury Me: A Call from Herman Wallace'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013165912/https://globalcomment.com/an-interactive-journey-through-solitary-confinement-the-deeper-they-bury-me-a-call-from-herman-wallace/ |date=October 13, 2023 }}. ''Global Comment'', October 23, 2015.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|qid=Q122931612}}

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Category:American prison films
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