FILM 174AReasonable Doubts: Making an Exoneree Part A

Part 1 of an intensive two-quarter course sequence in which UCSC students collaborate with students from Georgetown University to reinvestigate and document five cases of wrongful conviction. Small teams of students from both universities work together as investigative journalists, filmmakers, and social justice activists, producing short documentary films, websites, and social media campaigns providing humanizing portraits of the lives, families, and complicated legal cases of five wrongfully convicted incarcerated people. Commitment to enrollment in FILM 174B in the following quarter is required. Enrollment is by application; application materials available during the last three weeks of preceding quarter. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

• **APPLICATION REQUIRED** Selected FDM students will work in small teams as documentarians and social justice activists to create short films, websites, and social media campaigns that make the case for the innocence of a wrongfully convicted person currently languishing in prison. While in this course, students leave campus and travel to visit their "client" as they reinvestigate the crime and conviction. Their task is to create films and social media campaigns representing the injustices and human stories involved in each case. Applications due Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 at 11:59pm. Questions? Reach out to FDM Professor Sharon Daniel at sdaniel@ucsc.edu.

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