Off Center Media
About this original series
Off Center Media is a documentary production company founded by sisters Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler. In 1999, the Kunstlers produced Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War, a short video documentary that exposed a racist drug sting that led to the incarceration of over 10% of the African American community of a small Texas town. The video inspired national media coverage of the drug sting and its aftermath, led to state and federal investigations of the drug sting, helped the defendants secure new representation, influenced the passage of several bills in the Texas Senate, and prompted the federal indictment of the undercover narcotics officer. The success of this documentary as a tool for organizing, advocacy, and ultimately, justice, inspired Emily and Sarah to form Off Center Media. Off Center exposes injustice through the creation and circulation of media. We are committed to investigating and sharing stories of racism and oppression in the hope that we can help effect a country and a world where there really is equal justice for all.
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# Episodes
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Episodes of Off Center Media
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Executing the Insane: The Case of Scott Panetti
Scott Panetti is schizophrenic and is currently on death row in Texas. The U.S. Supreme Court heard Scott's case in mid April and is expected to hand down their decision on Thursday June 28th.The high court has long held that it is cruel and unusual punishment to execute the insane. In Scott Panetti's case the justices are examining whether it is cruel and unusual punishment to execute a person who does not fully understand the reason he is to be put to death. Scott Panetti thinks Texas wants ...
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Release date
Jun 27, 2007
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Runtime
27:15
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The Norfolk Four: A Miscarriage of Justice
Danial Williams, Joseph Dick Jr., Derek Tice, and Eric Wilson joined the Navy with aspirations of serving their country. Today, three of the four are in prison, serving life sentences for falsely confessing to a rape/murder that none of them committed, despite the fact that DNA has identified the real killer.Off Center recently completed The Norfolk Four: A Miscarriage of Justice, a 30-minute documentary about the Norfolk Four that has been submitted to the Governor of Virginia©2005, 32:39
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Release date
Jul 24, 2007
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Runtime
32:40
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Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War
Tulia, Texas is the site of what's been called one of the worst miscarriages of justice in recent memory. It's where an undercover narcotics officer named Tom Coleman arrested 46 people - nearly all of them black - on charges of being cocaine dealers, sending many of them to prison for a total of 750 years. See the documentary that brought national media attention to the story and led to the exoneration of these wrongfully convicted men and women. Produced by the William Moses Kunstler Fund fo...
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Release date
Jul 16, 2007
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Runtime
25:19
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Breaking the Chains: People of Color and the War...
A video celebrating the inaugural "Break the Chains" Conference focusing on Communities of Color and the War on Drugs in the United States. Produced in association with Break the Chains. ©2003, 16:00
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Release date
Jul 24, 2007
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Runtime
15:40
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A Pattern of Exclusion: The Trial of Thomas Mill...
A video about racial discrimination in jury selection in the trial of Thomas Miller-el, a man sentenced to death in Texas in 1985. Produced in association with the Texas Defender Service. ©2002, 16:00On 6/13/05, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that Mr. Miller-El is entitled to a new trial in light of strong evidence of racial bias during jury selection at his original trial.
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Release date
Jul 16, 2007
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Runtime
16:18
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Hearne, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War
The story of a community engaged in a struggle to clear the names of those swept up in a corrupt drug raid. Produced in association with the ACLU of Texas.© 2005, 22:49UPDATE: By November 2005, the criminal records relating to the 2000 Hearne,Texas drug raid were expunged for all of the plaintiffs in Kelly v. Paschall, the ACLU's civil suit (Michael Wells, Regina Kelly, Quincy Higgins, Milton Dunn, Darrell Gray, and Fredrick Seymore and Donal Eddington). Brad Boxley, the last defendant in pri...
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Release date
Jul 16, 2007
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Runtime
22:51
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James Allridge Clemency Video
In the Spring of 2004 Off Center Media teamed up with The Texas Defender Service for make a clemency video for James Allridge. James spent 18 years on death row in Texas for murdering a convenience store clerk. James was a model prisoner and a reformed man. On August 26, 2004 James Allridge was executed. ©2004, 20:12
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Release date
Jul 23, 2007
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Runtime
20:13
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