In the Cold Dark Night

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In The Cold Dark Night
Directed by Stephen Robert Morse
Nick Hampson
Written by Stephen Robert Morse
Max Peltz
Miikka Leskinen
Produced by Stephen Robert Morse
Max Peltz
CinematographyNick Hampson
Anthony Rubinstein
Jacob Sacks-Jones
Edited byMiikka Leskinen
Music byHarry Brokensha
Production
companies
Lone Wolf Studios, RadicalMedia
Distributed by Sky Documentaries
Now TV (Sky)
20/20 (American TV program)
Hulu
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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. The project was nominated for a 2021 News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing: Documentary. [1] [2] The film was also nominated for the Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema by the Georgia Film Critics Association. [3]

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The film premiered in the USA as a special event on 20/20 on July 17, 2020 and on Hulu immediately after. [4] It has aired in the UK on Sky Documentaries since October 8, 2020.

Production

Filming commenced in Griffin, Georgia and Spalding County, Georgia in January, 2018. The trials of the two men accused of murdering Timothy Coggins occurred in July and August, 2018.

In the Cold Dark Night received a grant from The Rogovy Foundation's Miller/Packan Documentary Film Fund for the summer of 2020. [5]

Reception

Executive Producer Wesley Lowery wrote a widely shared article about the story behind the film in GQ . [6] Additionally, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard discussed the film, comparing the process of working on the film with the process of writing an article about the same topic. [7]

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