A Street Legal Cinema Production by Stephen Vittoria, producer/ director of Long Distance Revolutionary.
Produced in association with Prison Radio, and with Rachel Wolkenstein, as legal consultant.

on Manufacturing guilt

Stephen Vittorio:
Manufacturing Guilt, the new short film from Stephen Vittoria, producer and director of MUMIA: Long Distance Revolutionary, takes on the colossus of Abu-Jamal's contentious case, distilling a mountain of evidence and years of oft-repeated falsehoods to the most fundamental elements of police and prosecutorial misconduct that illustrate a clear and conscious effort to frame Mumia Abu-Jamal for the murder of patrolman Daniel Faulkner. Based on the actual record of investigations and court filings from 1995 to 2003—evidence denied by the courts and ignored in the press--Manufacturing Guilt cuts through the years of absurdities and overt racism to produce a clear picture of how Abu-Jamal's guilt was manufactured and his innocence suppressed beginning only moments after he and Faulkner were found shot in the early morning hours of December 9th, 1981. This historic and courageous film is the perfect companion to Long Distance Revolutionary —a film that is unequivocal in its force regarding Abu-Jamal's innocence.
Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!
    —Pam Africa

Manufacturing Guilt highlights truth. Everybody who has a heart for justice, passion for truth, and concern for the innocent should see this film.
    —Keith Cook (Mumia's eldest brother)

Manufacturing Guilt is a chilling and vital inside view of what happened to my beloved father Mumia Abu-Jamal on that forsaken night that forever changed his life – and ours. 
    —Jamal Hart (Mumia's eldest son)

Wow, masterful work. This piece broaches new ground in a number of areas (inclusive of fleshing out Giordano). It is easily absorbed by the uninitiated and illuminating to those N-Da-Know. It includes visualized documentation to prove the frame job MAJ continues to endure.
    —Linn Washington (journalist and professor)

Watching Manufacturing Guilt was a haunting kind of thing. It is over thirty years since
Mumia was sentenced to death for the crime of surviving the police bullets and beatings.
     This film struck home. It shows how the "justice system" deletes evidence of innocence
and manufactures guilt. ... It is scary as hell—and the brutal and racist police continue as before. ... But we can't stop fighting or demonstrating, speaking out, writing checks. ... What was done to Mumia yesterday, continues today, and may tomorrow be done to any one of us.
    —Barbara Easley Cox (Black Panther Party for Self-Defense)

In a case such as this innocence is irrelevant, and to quote judge Sabo, "Justice is just an emotional feeling." St. Augustine said, what is a political regime when devoid of justice, but organized crime.
       Steve's film shows such a system where false confessions are used,
where witness lie and false evidence gets introduced to get a false
conviction before a judge who boasts, "I'm going to help them fry the n*****."  
    —from imprisoned nation, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal

mumia is innocent!  free mumia now!