About the film

Through the trial of a rebel leader in Sierra Leone, a nation faces its wartime past. Now international justice is on trial for the world to see.

About the team

Rebecca Richman Cohen (Director) is an Emmy Award nominated documentary filmmaker and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School since 2011. Rebecca was profiled in Filmmaker Magazine‘s 25 New Faces in Independent Film as an “up-and-comer poised to shape the next generation of independent film.” She has taught classes on the intersections of film and law at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), American University’s Human Rights Institute, and most recently at Columbia University.

Her films have been broadcast on public television, HBO, Al Jazeera, and the homepage of the New York Times website and have screened in government venues including Congress, FBI Headquarters, the State Department, and the Department of Justice. Rebecca graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and with a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. She was a 2012-2013 Soros Justice Fellow.

*Rebecca is also the director of Code of the West, a Cinereach supported film.

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