Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi spills all about how they made the ten part Netflix documentary series - Making a Murderer.
Making a Murderer is a documentary about Steven Avery, a wrongfully convicted man from Wisonsin. The series focuses around his trial in 2007 for the murder of a local photographer named Teresa Halbach.
The creative duo, Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, has been preparing for the film for a decade. Crafting the series from over seven hundred hours of footage that had the internet in an uproar trying to answer the question everyone wants to know - Did Steven Avery kill Teresa Halbach?
Theories have been hitting the social world surrounding the Netflix series since it aired on December 18, 2015.
Viewers made it known that they were outraged regarding the series and that Demos and Ricciardi have been receiving negative comments in the media stream.
Demos and Ricciardi were just NYC graduate film students when the 2007 trial caught their attention. The murder headlined news reports regarding Avery's crime he attested he did not commit. He spent 18 years in prison.
The film makers took their cameras and traveled to Manitowoc County and documented Avery's trial at the time. The trial lasted for six weeks and Avery's nephew was also arrested for the murder.
Demos revealed in an interview about her feelings about the whole series:
What I learned from making this series is the humility to accept that I don't know, and I may never know.
She explains that just because people have questions, it does not mean that there are answers. They had no idea that their film will create an uproar. The film also focused on a provocative study on America's legal system.
Our criminal justice system is based on a presumption of innocence until you're proven guilty-whereas in science, something is true until it's disproved. So it's exactly the opposite. We have one kind of test after another that used to be relied upon being revealed to be not so reliable, and there's a problem there.
