The Buried(2011)
In rural Alabama, on July 22, 2004, Scotty Joe Weaver was brutally murdered for being a homosexual by his closest friend. After interviewing family members, and meeting the murderer in an Alabama prison, filmmaker Jonathan Pope Evans created this experimental narrative about the brutal crime, a fractured and startling re-imagining of the violent murder.
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In rural Alabama, on July 22, 2004, Scotty Joe Weaver was brutally murdered for being a homosexual by his closest friend. After interviewing family members, and meeting the murderer in an Alabama prison, filmmaker Jonathan Pope Evans created this experimental narrative about the brutal crime, a fractured and startling re-imagining of the violent murder.
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2011-10-01
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