By Madeleine May, N-Map Producer Williams Owodo was 17 years old when he was falsely arrested for murder. He and his friends were playing soccer near his house when a fight broke out next to the field and a man was killed. When Owodo went to the police station to give a witness statement, he… Read More Nigerian Exonerees Use Video to Fight Wrongful Imprisonment and Executions
By Jessie Landerman, N-Map Project Manager While Fahd and his family look to the future, I cannot help but reflect on how cruel his detention was and marvel at how Fahd preserved his humanity throughout. — Omar Farah, Fahd Gazy’s Attorney N-Map recently learned that Fahd Ghazy, the subject of our 2014 film Waiting For… Read More N-Map Success Story: Fahd Ghazy Released from Guantánamo after 14 Years of Unlawful Detention
By Steve Steim, N-Map’s Creative and Technical Director This Monday, March 14th, N-Map will be at SXSW Interactive hosting the panel “Strategic Storytelling: Video as Policy Changer.” Our panel will explore how advocates, lawyers, and artists can use legal strategy, innovative storytelling, and design to unravel the web of policies and practices that create an… Read More Join N-Map’s SXSW Conversation on Strategic Storytelling
“How are you today, Mr. Redd?” began the five-hour deposition interview with Paul Redd, an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison. For the past 14 years Redd has been held in solitary confinement, isolated in a cell the size of a parking lot for 22 to 24 hours a day. “I am surviving,” said Redd… Read More Plaintiffs in Landmark Pelican Bay Case Speak Out Against Solitary Confinement
Clean and sober for five years, Tammy is the mother of seven and proud grandmother of two. “I’m an ex-addict that is struggling every day to try to get myself together,” explains Tammy. She had steered her life back on track after years of treatment and hard work, but a relatively small issue threatened to turn… Read More Brooklyn Community Bail Fund: Giving Low-Income Individuals a Chance in Court
We are excited to announce the launch of a new legal information platform: www.clarovideo.org. New York City courts face a debt collection crisis. In 2008, at the height of the recession, filings for consumer debt lawsuits peaked at over 300,000. That’s almost a third of a million cases in just one city! The volume… Read More Clarovideo.org – A New Online Resource to Empower Consumers in NYC’s Courts
It is with great enthusiasm that N-Map launches our newest film: Advancing Justice Through Expert Testimony in Haiti. (Pou Kreyol, tanpri klikeisi) In November 2013, our partners—the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) —invited us to Haiti to produce a film that advocates for the greater… Read More Expert Witnesses: Advancing Justice for Women in Haitian Courts
Se avèk anpil antouzyas ke N-Map pibliye nouvo fim nou: Avanse Jistis Atravè Temwayaj Ekspè. (For English, please click here.) An novanm 2013, patnè nou—Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI)ak Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH)— envite nou al Ayiti pou n pwodui yon fim ki sipòte plis itilizasyon temwayaj ekspè nan tribunal Ayiti.… Read More Avanse Jistis Atravè Temwayaj Ekspè
Our newest film, made in collaboration with our wonderful client, The Constitution Project, was screened last Friday evening at the Department of Justice! Check out this photo of Attorney General Eric Holder introducing segments of “Defending Gideon” to member of the DOJ.
N-Map and our partner, The Constitution Project, just finished producing, Defending Gideon, a short documentary narrated by Martin Sheen. The film profiles personal stories that illuminate one of the most significant human rights problems in the United States today: lack of access to lawyers for poor criminal defendants – and, as a result, the denial… Read More Defending the Right to Counsel in the United States: 50 Years after Gideon v. Wainwright
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