The Films of Frederick Wiseman: Juvenile Court (4K Restoration)
April 30 - May 10, 2025
The Films of Frederick Wiseman | Presented by SIFF and The Beacon
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman offers an unobtrusive examination of the goings-on of a children's court, Memphis Juvenile Court 616.
Juvenile Court shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues as community protection vs. the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of the choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in administering a juvenile court.
- Director: Frederick Wiseman
- Country: USA
- Year: 1973
- Running Time: 144 min.
- Producer: Frederick Wiseman
- Cinematographers: William Brayne
- Editors: Frederick Wiseman
- Filmography: Titicut Follies (1967), Law and Order (1969), Hospital (1970), Primate (1974), Welfare (1975), National Gallery (2014), In Jackson Heights (2015), Monrovia, Indiana (2018), Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023)
- Language: English
- US Distributor: mTuckman media, inc.