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FNC 2014: ‘Evolution of a Criminal’

Evolution of a Criminal is Darius Clark Monroe’s first film. Produced by Spike Lee, who happened was Darius’ film teacher, it won the Special Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival. A recent graduate from the NYU Film School, as we learn at the end of his film, Darius undergoes the original project of documenting his own life, and what happened to him, which not your ordinary teenage years. In 1997, at 16 year old, Darius Clark Monroe robbed a Bank of America and stole a huge amount of money along with two accomplices and friends. Following that, in what his prosecutors called a “lucky” sentence he spent 5 years in prison to be released only at 22, thus spending among the most formative years of his life in jail.

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