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Marc Silver’s documentary about the shooting death of black teenager Jordan Davis is coming to HBO.
The network secured the US TV rights to “3 ½ Minutes” which also looks at the trail of Davis’ killer Michael Dunn.
The film premiered at the US Documentary Competition at Sundance. HBO will air “3 ½ Minutes” following its theatrical release.
Producers are Carolyn Hepburn and Minette Nelson with exec producers Orlando Bagwell, Bonni Cohen, Julie Goldman, Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann.
In 3 1/2 Minutes, two lives intersected and were forever altered. On Black Friday in 2012, two cars parked next to each other at a Florida gas station. A middle-aged white man and a black teenager exchanged angry words over the volume of the music in the boy’s car. A gun entered the exchange, and one of them was left dead. Dunn fired 10 bullets at a car full of unarmed teenagers and then fled. Three of those bullets hit 17-year-old Jordan Davis, who died at the scene. Arrested the next day, Dunn claimed he shot in self-defense. Thus began the long journey of unraveling the truth. 3 1/2 Minutes follows that journey, reconstructing the night of the killing and revealing how hidden racial prejudice can result in tragedy.
