WEST OF MEMPHIS

From Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg (2006, BestDocumentary Feature, Deliver Us From Evil) in collaboration withthe multiple Academy Award®-winning team of Peter Jackson andFran Walsh (2003, Best Picture & Best Adapted Screenplay,The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), WEST OF MEMPHIStells the untold story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight tostop the State of Arkansas from killing an innocent man. Told andproduced by those who lived it, Damien Echols and Lorri Davis, thefilm uncovers new evidence surrounding the 1993 murders of threeeight-year-old boys in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas, andexposes the wrongful conviction of three teenagers who lost 18 yearsof their lives imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.