Coming to VOD tomorrow, Friday, July 18: LOST FOR LIFE
Joshua Rofé’s look at juvenile offenders serving life sentences made its debut at AFI Docs last year. It went on to screen at Nantucket, Annapolis, and Middleburg. SnagFilms now releases the film on iTunes.
I previously wrote about the film out of AFI Docs for Indiewire, saying:
Joshua Rofé’s compelling world premiere also deals with young subjects – the difference is that they are facing life imprisonment for horrific crimes, without hope for parole. Rofé presents multiple perspectives, speaking to perpetrators – some now barely adults, others already behind bars for over a decade – as well as their families, and survivors of victims of juvenile offenders. The complexity of the issue often leads viewers to shift their own stance, scene-by-scene, on the vital question presented at the doc’s heart: Is there any hope for rehabilitation and redemption through our penal system if these young men are never afforded even the possibility of future release, or are their crimes so heinous as to merit no second chances, no matter the circumstances?
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