| Herman's House | |
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| Directed by | Angad Singh Bhalla |
| Produced by | Ed Barreveld Loring McAlpin Lisa Valencia-Svensson |
| Starring | Jackie Sumell Herman Wallace |
| Cinematography | Iris Ng |
| Edited by | Ricardo Acosta |
| Music by | Ken Myhr |
Production company | Storyline Entertainment |
| Distributed by | First Run Features |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Countries | Canada United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
Herman's House is a documentary film, directed by Angad Singh Bhalla and released in 2012. [1] An American, British and Canadian coproduction, the film profiles Herman Wallace, a member of the Angola Three who had been in prison for over 40 years after his shorter prison term for bank robbery was extended with a disputed conviction for a murder he did not commit, and Jackie Sumell, a conceptual artist who has launched a project of building the dream house Wallace wishes he could live in if he is ever released from prison. [2]
Wallace is never shown in the film, and instead is heard only in recorded telephone conversations with Sumell. [3]
The film premiered at the 2012 True/False Film Festival, [4] and had its Canadian premiere at the 2012 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. [2]
It was broadcast in July 2013 as an episode of the PBS documentary series POV . [5]
Bhalla was the winner of the Magnus Isacsson Award at the 2012 Montreal International Documentary Festival. [6]
The film was a Donald Brittain Award nominee for best social or political documentary at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014. [7] Ricardo Acosta was nominated for Best Editing in a Documentary Program or Series, and Ken Myhr received a nomination for Best Music for a Non-Fiction Program or Series.
The film won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming at the 2014 News and Documentary Emmy Awards. [8]
Following Wallace's death of cancer in late 2013, Bhalla and digital media producer Ted Biggs created the interactive documentary project The Deeper They Bury Me: A Call from Herman Wallace, which was based around Wallace's time in solitary confinement, for the National Film Board of Canada. [9]
