"Sin City Law" filmmakers speak
This summer I caught up with the producers and directors of some of the great crime stories of the new millennium — three Frenchmen who have become fascinated with the American criminal justice system. You know their work from the Oscar winning HBO documentary "Murder on a Sunday Morning," and "The Staircase," the spellbinding Sundance Channel documentary that followed the case of Michael Peterson, a North Carolina author convicted of killing his wife by pushing her down a staircase.
Tonight, Sundance Channel premieres their newest work, "Sin City Law," four two-hour films about four criminal cases heard in Clark County, Nevada, which is to say, Las Vegas. We disseminated the appeal of Las Vegas. We talked about AMerican TV and its aversion to stories that can't be told in simple terms like black and white or good and evil.
