Academy Award™-winning documentary filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade (Murder on a Sunday Morning) presents The Staircase, a gripping courtroom thriller, offering a rare and revealing inside look at a high-profile murder trial. In 2001, North Carolina author Michael Peterson was arraigned for the murder of his wife, whose body was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of their upscale home. Granted unusual access to Peterson’s lawyers, home and immediate family, de Lestrade’s cameras capture the defense team as it considers its strategic options. When some startling evidence comes to light during the investigation, the filmmakers are on the scene to record the discovery. And as the case finally goes to trial, the film reveals the defendant’s own thoughts about the prosecution’s witnesses, the evidence and his chances of acquittal. The Staircase is an engrossing, eye-opening look at contemporary American justice that features more twists than a legal bestseller.
When: Thursday, March 24, 2005
Time: Doors open at 6pm; screening at 7pm. Come early to play film trivia.
Location: Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), Balboa Park (Free parking behind the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater)
Cost: Free – Courtesy of the Sundance Channel and Cox Communications
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