The Mind of Mark DeFriest

The Mind of Mark DeFriest
Directed by Gabriel London
Produced by Daniel J. Chalfen
Gabriel London
Charlie Sadoff
Starring Mark DeFriest
Ron McAndrew
John Middleton
Bonnie DeFriest
Barbie Taylor
Robert Berland
Music by Ronan Coleman
Cinematography Eric Koretz
William Charles Moss
Andreas Wagner
Edited by Nick Clark
Distributed by Found Objects and Naked Edge Films
Release dates
  • April 21, 2014 (2014-04-21)
Running time
 100 min.
Country United States
Language English

The Mind of Mark DeFriest (also known as The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest) is a documentary film about Mark DeFriest, a man imprisoned by the State of Florida since 1980, who spent 27 of those years in solitary confinement. His original four year sentence, for taking his father's tools after his death, before they had been released to him by the court, and then fleeing the police, has been repeatedly extended due to numerous escape attempts, seven of which were successful, and because of infractions committed while in prison.[1][2][3]

“If I was a rapist or a murderer, they’d let me out,” DeFriest says in the film. “But I’m the idiot who made them look like idiots.”[4]

Reception

The film won the 2014 Best Documentary Feature award at the Lone Star Film Festival.[5] It has a score of 82% on Metacritic.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Cammy Clark (November 7, 2014). "Film tells dark tale of Mark DeFriest, the long-imprisoned 'Houdini of Florida'". Miami Herald.
  2. ↑ "The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest: New Film Captures Florida Prisoner's Shocking Ordeal Behind Bars". Democracy Now!. November 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ Dennis Harvey (May 8, 2014). "Film Review: 'The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest'". Variety.
  4. ↑ Mark Hinson (14 August 2014). "Meet Mark DeFriest, the most unlucky prisoner in Florida". Tallahassee Democrat.
  5. ↑ "2014 LSFF Jury Competition Winners". Lone Star Film Festival. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  6. ↑ "The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest". Metacritic.


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