THE SING SING CHRONICLES

SCREENING TIME AND TICKETS:

SATURDAY, MARCH 29
5 PM
CAPAWOCK THEATRE

SUNDAY, MARCH 30
1 PM
THE GRANGE HALL

Dir. Peter Miller | Documentary | U.S.A. | 2024 | 1 hr. 37 min. 

Followed by a discussion with director Dawn Porter, journalist & executive producer Dan Slepian, and film subject Jon-Adrian Velazquez. Episodes 2 and 4 will be shown.

Directed by Dawn Porter, The Sing Sing Chronicles is a four-episode exposé built on two-decades of original investigative reporting with unprecedented access to one of America’s most notorious prisons. Crafted from an archive of more than 1,000 hours of footage filmed from 2002 to present day, the series tells the story of a journalist and a man convicted of murder who begin as strangers but become like brothers. Their unlikely connection, forged in the cell blocks of Sing Sing Correctional Facility, ignites a search for justice in four unrelated homicide cases.

Photo credit: Bryant Fisher

Photo credit: NBC News Studios

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Dawn Porter is an American documentary filmmaker and the founder of the production company Trilogy. Her award-winning films and series include Luther: Never Too Much, The Lady Bird Diaries, Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court, Trapped, Spies of Mississippi and Gideon’s Army, among many others. As a three-time Sundance film festival director and National Medal of the Arts recipient, Porter’s work has been featured on HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Showtime, CNN, PBS, MSNBC, MTV Films, and other platforms. Porter discovered her passion for filmmaking following her time as an attorney. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College with a major in political science and has a law degree from Georgetown University Law School.