Knox, Kercher’s roommate and an American student studying abroad, and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were arrested and convicted of the murder. For a case that often seemed like a horror movie played out in the nightly news, Amanda Knox allows the drama’s main characters to step out from their media-crafted roles. Amanda Knox, five years in the making, centres on interviews with Knox, Sollecito, the Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini and Nick Pisa, a freelance journalist for the Daily Mail. Their appeal was based on giving Knox, Sollecito and Mignini a more unfiltered avenue in which to tell their stories, without sensational or headline-motivated interest. The filmmakers have watched as their documentary has ironically returned Knox into the media spotlight.

Source: thestar September 29, 2016 18:56 UTC