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France’s Alba Films Acquires Raindance-Winning Doc ‘The State of Texas vs. Melissa’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentParis-based company Alba Films has acquired French distribution rights to Sabrina Van Tassel’s timely social justice documentary “The State of Texas vs.

Melissa.”The documentary premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and recently made its U.K. debut at the Raindance Film Festival where it won the best documentary award.

FilmRise holds theatrical and digital rights to the film for North America, the U.K. and Ireland.Set in the heart of the Latino community of South Texas, the film explores the life and trials of Melissa Lucio, the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death row in Texas, the state responsible for the most executions in America since 1976.

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