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PHILLY D.A.

By Ted PASSON, Yoni BROOK

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Documentary - Completed 2021

A groundbreaking documentary series embedded inside the shocking election and tumultuous first term of Larry Krasner, the most controversial District Attorney in the nation, and his mission to upend the criminal justice system from within.

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& Awards

Sundance Film Festival (online) 2021
Premieres Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction
Sundance 2021
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    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 440 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ted PASSON, Yoni BROOK
    • Synopsis
    • In 2017, Philadelphia was the most incarcerated major city in the United States. It’s now the epicenter of a controversial experiment that could shape the future of criminal justice in America for decades to come. Radical civil rights attorney Larry Krasner spent years fighting the system from the outside until he mounted a longshot campaign to end mass incarceration by taking over the office at its core: The District Attorney’s Office. He shocked the establishment by winning the election - gaining the attention of the nation and the disdain of the Trump administration. Now, the prosecutors he spent his campaign denigrating are his co-workers; the police he alienated are his law enforcement partners.

      Pressure comes from all sides in a system that doesn’t want to change. Krasner’s unapologetic promise to use the immense power of the DA’s office for sweeping reform is what got him elected; now that he’s in office, that same stubbornness threatens to alienate those he needs to work with the most. From the eye of this political storm, DA Krasner has allowed filmmakers unprecedented access into his office and behind the scenes of the criminal justice system.

      Known as the “black box” of the criminal justice system, prosecutor's offices have always been shielded from public view - until now. Over the course of five episodes, Philly DA opens up this hidden world and explores the most pressing social issues of our time – police brutality, gun violence, and mass incarceration. The series shows the complex drama at the center of an historic experiment that could shape the future of prosecution in America for decades to come.
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