Philly D.A.
Episodic Completed 2021
Director
Ted Passon
Director
Yoni Brook
Doc Society helped with
Production
Impact
Radical civil rights attorney, Larry Krasner, leads a band of activists who set out to end mass incarceration by taking over the agency at its center: the district attorney’s office. Embedded behind closed doors, this series watches an unprecedented criminal justice experiment unfold to ask: can outsiders reform a system from within?
Crew
As the series progresses, it evolves beyond hagiography, developing a serious critique of a man who is as arrogant as he is admirable.
The New Yorker
Aug. 6, 2021
Part of the joy of this series is the intellectual cut and thrust of its protagonists.
Financial Times
June 18, 2021
Fascinating.
Times (UK)
Nov. 11, 2021
Clearly not everybody wants Krasner's "social experiment", which makes this series all the more compelling.
Observer (UK)
June 27, 2021
Collecting insights from attorneys, judges, journalists, activists, police officers, and more, "Philly D.A." resonates from its rich tapestry of perspectives.
The Playlist
March 3, 2021
The filmmakers spent three years following the longtime criminal defense lawyer Larry Krasner for this essential, remarkably balanced vérité-style account of his unlikely tenure as the city's district attorney.
TIME Magazine
May 21, 2021