Los Angeles Film Festival 2012

The House I Live In

(USA, 2012, 107 mins)

Executive Producers: Joslyn Barnes, Nick Fraser, Danny Glover
Producers: Melinda Shopsin , Christopher St. John , Sam Cullman
Cinematographers: Sam Cullman, Derek Hallquist
Editor: Paul Frost
Music: Robert Miller

Eugene Jarecki’s powerful, award-winning documentary exposes the monumental failure of our 40-year, trillion dollar war on drugs, which has torn apart communities, consciously targeted minorities, damaged our police forces and turned incarceration into big time American business. Featuring eye-opening interviews with prison guards, judges, cops, The Wire producer David Simon and historian Richard Lawrence Miller, who shows how the persecution of specific drugs goes hand in hand with the persecution of specific racial groups, Jarecki’s vast, moving and revelatory film suggests that our governmental solutions may be the real crime.

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