THE TRIALS OF DARYL HUNT

JULY 27 - AUGUST 2, Fri - Thurs at 7 & 9:15 PM (plus Sat & Sun at 3 &
5 PM)
The Northwest film Forum & The Langston Hughes African American Film
Festival present in partnership:
THE TRIALS OF DARYL HUNT
*Sponsored by the ACLU of Washington and the Langston Hughes African
American Film Festival

DARYL HUNT'S ATTORNEY MARK RABIL IN ATTENDANCE FRI July 28 & SAT July 29!

(Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, USA, 2006,35mm, 106 min)

NW FILM FORUM
1515 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
www.nwfilmforum.org
General $8.50 senior $6.00 member $5.00
Tickets available at the box office or on the NW Film Forum website
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THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT documents a brutal rape/murder case in the

American South. It offers a deeply personal story of a wrongfully

convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent twenty years in prison for a crime

he did not commit. In 1984, a young white newspaper reporter, Deborah

Sykes, was raped, sodomized and stabbed to death just blocks from where

she worked in Winston-Salem, NC. Based on an identification made by a

former Ku Klux Klan member, a 19-year-old black man, Darryl Hunt, was

charged. Although no physical evidence linked him to the crime, Hunt was

convicted by an all white jury, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The

film chronicles this capital case from 1984 through 2004. With personal

narratives and exclusive footage from two decades, the directors frame

the judicial and emotional responses to this chilling crime -- and the

implications surrounding Hunt's conviction -- against a backdrop of

class and racial bias in America. This unique look at one man's loss and

redemption challenges the assumption that all Americans have the right

to unbiased justice.