
EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE - Dallas International Film Festival | "A self-reflective journey toward understanding and amends" - The New York Times Criminal Justice • African American • Race and Ethnicity • Trauma • Youth + Education Date of Completion: 2014 | Run Time: 83 minutes | Language: English | Captions: No | Includes: Transcript & Discussion Guide | Director: Darius Clark Monroe What does a criminal look like to you? For too many in America, it's unquestioningly a Black man. In the award-winning documentary EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL, Darius Clark Monroe turns the camera on himself in order to present a more accurate image of one African American man against the backdrop of this country’s ongoing criminalization of his peers. Now a graduate of NYU Film School, Monroe Clark crafts an intricate and emotionally complex narrative of his own trajectory from straight-A student to bank robber, while ultimately reflecting on the racial and economic factors that surround his crime as he s