In The Cold Dark Night (film)
| In The Cold Dark Night | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Stephen Robert Morse Nick Hampson |
| Produced by | Stephen Robert Morse Max Peltz |
| Written by | Stephen Robert Morse Max Peltz Miikka Leskinen |
| Music by | Harry Brokensha |
| Cinematography | Nick Hampson Anthony Rubinstein Jacob Sacks-Jones |
| Edited by | Miikka Leskinen |
Production company | Lone Wolf Studios, RadicalMedia |
| Distributed by | Sky Documentaries Now TV (Sky) 20/20 (American TV program) Hulu |
Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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In The Cold Dark Night is a 2020 American documentary film about the murder of Timothy Coggins in Spalding County, Georgia in 1983 and the Coggins family's subsequent 35-year quest for justice. In 2017, authorities reopen the investigation into the cold case. When a young investigator at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation conducts a routine review of Timothy's murder, he notices details that hadn't been discovered or properly investigated before. In the rural regions of the state, major crimes are handled by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which has 350 investigators. Every six months, the agency cycles its unsolved cases, even those that are decades old, to new investigators in the hope that fresh eyes spot something-which is how, in 2016, the long-abandoned Timothy Coggins case file landed on the desk of Special Agent Jared Coleman, a studious young investigator in his second year at the agency.
The film premiered in the USA as a special event on 20/20 (American TV program) on July 17, 2020 and on Hulu immediately after.[1] It then aired in the UK on Sky Documentaries from October 8, 2020.
Synopsis[edit]
Set in the heart of the American South, the film examines both the 1983 and 2018 investigations into the racist murder of a young Black man, Timothy Coggins. The film highlights how one era enabled this crime to go without punishment and how the other attempts to bring justice decades later. Featuring a 360-degree view of all people involved within the case, the film conveys themes of hope and resilience, while asking audiences to become the juries themselves; questioning their presumptions of guilt, innocence, and authority. [2]
Reception[edit]
Executive Producer Wesley Lowery wrote a widely shared article about the story behind the film in GQ.[3] Additionally, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard wrote, of Lowery's article and the film, "Both are immensely powerful narratives that use radically different techniques to answer the same question: How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved. Lowery unspools it in a vivid 3,638-word narrative built largely on reconstruction. The documentary provides a riveting account in 82 minutes, whittled down from 1,000 hours of filming. Morse’s team finished filming in 2018 when Coggins’ murderers were sentenced in court. As executive producer, Lowery viewed the film and provided feedback through multiple edits. He then made his own journey to Griffin, re-interviewing the sources in the film, scouring records, even walking around the empty club where Coggins was last seen the night he was killed. Both stories cover essentially the same ground: the bereaved survivors, the killers who plead ignorance, the dogged investigation and murder trial. But while Lowery relies on prose to reconstruct the story of a crucial evidentiary discovery, Morse has his cameras rolling when investigators tunnel into a suspect’s well, vacuuming up a truckload of mud and debris, which turns out to include a bloodstained shirt with seven stab wounds that proved crucial to the jury’s verdict. Morse also borrows from the game plan of many crime documentaries by using several dramatically recreated scenes, based on official records, evidence and interviews “to fill some gaping visual holes from 1983 that we were unable to fill.”[4]
The film was nominated by the Georgia Film Critics Association for the James Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema, bestowed upon a feature film or short film that was produced in Georgia. [5]
The film was a recipient of The Rogovy Foundation's Miller/Packan Documentary Film Fund grant for the summer of 2020. [6]
References[edit]
- ↑ ""In the Cold Dark Night" | The 20/20 Event airs tonight at 9|8c on ABC". ABC. July 17, 2020. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
- ↑ Huster, Laurel. "'In the Cold Dark Night' selected for Atlanta Film Festival". The Newnan Times-Herald. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
- ↑ Lowery, Wesley. "A Brutal Lynching. An Indifferent Police Force. A 34-Year Wait for Justice". GQ. Conde Nast. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
- ↑ Scanlan, Chip. "One cold case murder. Two narrative forms". Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Harvard. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
- ↑ "Oglethorpe Award". Georgia Film Critics Association. Georgia Film Critics Association. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
- ↑ Morgan, Jillian. "Rogovy Foundation names summer 2020 doc film fund winners". RealScreen. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
External links[edit]
- In The Cold Dark Night on IMDb Search this movie on
- https://abc.com/shows/2020/episode-guide/2020-07/17-in-the-cold-dark-night
- https://rogovy.org/in-the-cold-dark-night/
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