After two successful premieres at the Toronto Film Festival and the American Film Festival (AFI) in Los Angeles, "Witch Hunt" is heading to the Denver Film Festival on November 20th. The film has been described by film critic for Star Magazine Marshall Fine as, "a chilling story about American law-enforcement run amok and untethered...A movie that can't help but move you - to tears and to action." For more information on the AFI premiere, visit www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-witch1-2008nov01,0,2827447.story.

For more details on the Denver Film Festival, visit their website at: www.denverfilm.org/festival/film/detail.aspx.

On October 23, 2008, NCIP Legal Director Linda Starr participated in a panel called "Facilitating communication and collaboration between the forensic science community and the innocence movement" at the annual meeting of the California Association of Criminalists.

On October 18, 2008, NCIP Legal Director Linda Starr participated as a judge in the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice National Criminal Moot Court trial competition in Los Angeles.

NCIP Exoneree Stoll Featured in Film at Toronto Film Festival-John Stoll was exonerated in 2004 as a result of the work done by a team of NCIP attorneys and law students. Witch Hunt, a film created by Dana Nachman and Don Hardy, tells the story of John Stoll and the dozens of other innocent people who were wrongly incarcerated. Executive Producer Sean Penn narrates this gripping failure of the criminal justice system.

The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, September 4 - 13, 2008. Following the premiere and critical acclaim, Stoll and the NCIP attorneys participated in an emotional Q&A session.

NCIP Executive Director "Cookie" Ridolfi, along with Legal Director Linda Starr and Supervising Attorney Jill Kent were on hand for the premier of the film and raised over $10,000 for the Innocence Project that night.

For more information about Witch Hunt and to see the movie trailer, visit http://www.ktffilms.com.

Recorded on March 14, 2007

A lecture by John Van De Camp