HBO’s Atlanta’s Missing And Murdered: The Lost Children, a five-part docuseries executive produced and directed by Sam Pollard and Maro Chermayeff, along with Jeff Dupre and Joshua Bennett, is an intricate reexamination of one of the most horrific events in that southern city’s not-too-distant history — the kidnapping and murder of at least 30 (though likely more) African-American children and young adults between 1979 and 1981. Though the crimes ultimately would all be pinned on one man, a 23-year-old oddball named Wayne Williams, the case has now been reopened by current Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. The case was the […]...
- 4/20/2020
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
HBO’s Atlanta’s Missing And Murdered: The Lost Children, a five-part docuseries executive produced and directed by Sam Pollard and Maro Chermayeff, along with Jeff Dupre and Joshua Bennett, is an intricate reexamination of one of the most horrific events in that southern city’s not-too-distant history — the kidnapping and murder of at least 30 (though likely more) African-American children and young adults between 1979 and 1981. Though the crimes ultimately would all be pinned on one man, a 23-year-old oddball named Wayne Williams, the case has now been reopened by current Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. The case was the […]...
- 4/20/2020
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Over a two-year period beginning in 1979, at least 30 black children and young adults were murdered in the city of Atlanta. Eager to solve the case, officials pegged the crimes to 23-year-old Wayne Williams, who would eventually be found guilty of murdering two adults. Days after he was sentenced to two life terms, most of the children’s cases were closed and attributed to him, without ever going to trial. The new HBO series “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered” explores how the victims’ family members remain skeptical of Williams’ guilt. It points to alternate suspects and biases, while investigating the racial tensions and cultural clashes that brought Atlanta to a boiling point, raising new questions that demand further investigation.
Directed by Sam Pollard, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, and Joshua Bennett, the five-part “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered” distinctly reproduces its period. It documents in detail Atlanta’s history over the past half-century,...
Directed by Sam Pollard, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, and Joshua Bennett, the five-part “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered” distinctly reproduces its period. It documents in detail Atlanta’s history over the past half-century,...
- 4/13/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
It’s been 40 years since 30 children and young adults were murdered in Atlanta, Georgia, sending a shock wave through what was then one of the most promising up-and-coming Southern cities. Now, the questions that have plagued the victims’ families for decades are finally being reexamined in HBO’s five-part docuseries, “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered.”
To tell the complex and multi-layered story, the series dives deep into archival footage, legal documents, photographic evidence, and exclusive interviews to take a fresh look at what happened all those years ago — and it gives a voice to the tireless parents who have never stopped searching for the truth about their kids’ murders that they believe is still out there.
“There was something not quite right about how the case had unfolded, and how Wayne Williams had been arrested and convicted. It didn’t smell right,” filmmaker Maro Chermayeff, who made the series along with Sam Pollard,...
To tell the complex and multi-layered story, the series dives deep into archival footage, legal documents, photographic evidence, and exclusive interviews to take a fresh look at what happened all those years ago — and it gives a voice to the tireless parents who have never stopped searching for the truth about their kids’ murders that they believe is still out there.
“There was something not quite right about how the case had unfolded, and how Wayne Williams had been arrested and convicted. It didn’t smell right,” filmmaker Maro Chermayeff, who made the series along with Sam Pollard,...
- 4/4/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
This Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children review contains no spoilers.
Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children, directed by Show of Force, which includes Joshua Bennett, Maro Chermayeff and Jeff Dupre, and Sam Pollard, is devastating, appalling, and utterly riveting. It will move you to yell at your TV screens frustrated at justice denied, and leave you with the horrific anxiety of a killer or killers on the loose and possibly protected by a system corrupted with endemic racism.
Between 1979 and 1981, at least 28 African-American children, aged 7 to 17, most of them boys, but also adolescents and young adults, were kidnapped and murdered in Atlanta. The city became the center of attention throughout the world. Twenty-three-year old Atlanta native Wayne Williams was arrested and charged with two of the adult murders. The judge allowed the prosecution to attribute ten additional victims to him, essentially putting Williams on trial...
Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children, directed by Show of Force, which includes Joshua Bennett, Maro Chermayeff and Jeff Dupre, and Sam Pollard, is devastating, appalling, and utterly riveting. It will move you to yell at your TV screens frustrated at justice denied, and leave you with the horrific anxiety of a killer or killers on the loose and possibly protected by a system corrupted with endemic racism.
Between 1979 and 1981, at least 28 African-American children, aged 7 to 17, most of them boys, but also adolescents and young adults, were kidnapped and murdered in Atlanta. The city became the center of attention throughout the world. Twenty-three-year old Atlanta native Wayne Williams was arrested and charged with two of the adult murders. The judge allowed the prosecution to attribute ten additional victims to him, essentially putting Williams on trial...
- 4/1/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
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