Marc Smerling and Errol Morris are members of an exclusive club. Smerling, a producer, writer and cinematographer on HBO's The Jinx, and Morris, helmer of The Thin Blue Line and the Oscar-winning The Fog of War, are documentarians whose efforts in the true crime space yielded change in the real world.
If anybody is qualified to discuss the genre and its capacity to bring about justice, but also maybe its ability to obscure facts in a sea of storytelling artifice, it's these two.
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