IN HIS OWN WORDS | Yoav Potash Shares a Scene from “Crime After Crime”
In Yoav Potash’s first full-length feature documentary, “Crime After Crime,” the filmmaker went to great lengths to follow the epic legal battle to free Deborah Peagler. To gain access to the maximum-security prison in Chowchilla, California where Peagler was incarcerated, he used a two-pronged approach; first he embedded himself with Peagler’s pro-bono attorneys as her official legal videographer, and second, he made an entirely separate documentary about the rehabilitative programs at the prison – a project that acted as a sort of Trojan horse to surreptitiously transport Potash and his crew inside the prison gates.
The plan appears to have worked. “Crime After Crime” has earned numerous top festival awards and garnered some great notices following its world premiere at Sundance. Below, find an exclusive scene from the film and Potash’s thoughts on the process.
The Scene
The sequence that I’ve chosen for indieWIRE shows how Deborah Peagler’s case began to transform — from a private legal brief quietly argued by her two attorneys — into a public battle waged on front page headlines, in TV news reports, and in the court of public opinion.
To provide some context, I’ve started this excerpt at the end of a previous scene, where attorney Joshua Safran stands at a whiteboard, laying out the legal strategy five years into the case. The shot is literally a “back to the drawing board” moment – half an hour earlier in the film (at the start of the film’s second act) we saw Joshua at this same whiteboard, outlining the uphill battle he envisioned for winning his client’s freedom when he began working on the case in 2002.The whiteboard motif emerged from workshopping the film with test audiences. Throughout the five and a half years of making this film, we held work-in-progress screenings to help me determine which scenes were working, and to identify scenes where audiences weren’t connecting with what we had. (We also used these events as opportunities to fundraise for the film). In early cuts, the legal process confused some audience members, so I went back and asked Joshua to stand in front of a white board and diagram the strategy in plain English. We tested it out at our next rough cut screening and audiences really loved it, so coming back to the whiteboard for a reorientation when the case began to escalate was a natural extension of the motif.
We then insert a timeline graphic, another motif element of the film that is repeated as Debbie and her lawyers push through year after year of their saga. A news clip from Oakland’s KTVU Fox-2 News does a nice job of quickly contrasting the lawyers’ current efforts with their original concept of what they imagined would be an open-and-shut case, and once we cut to footage of an outdoor concert where Speech of Arrested Development is talking about Deborah’s plight to a crowd of thousands, it’s clear that her case is getting bigger than anyone ever imagined.
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