MTV Documentary Films’ Oscar-Contending Short ‘I Am Ready, Warden’ Ready For Paramount+ Premiere
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films’ Oscar-contender I Am Ready, Warden, directed by Smriti Mundhra, will premiere on Paramount+ November 22.
The short documentary, about a death row inmate seeking the possibility of redemption as his execution date approaches, earned its latest award over the weekend at the Woodstock Film Festival.
The project reunites MTV Documentary Films with Mundhra; they teamed up for the 2019 short documentary St. Louis Superman, which earned the first Academy Award nomination for MTV’s nonfiction banner.
It also brought the first Oscar nom to Mundhra and her fellow director on that film, Sami Khan. I Am Ready, Warden, which premiered earlier this year at Montana’s Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, “tells the harrowing and emotionally charged story of John Henry Ramirez, a man convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Texas,” according to a release. “Through his time on death row, the film offers a rare and intimate glimpse into his attempts to seek redemption and reconciliation.
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