David Feige

Writing

David Feige

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Writing

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4 titles

David Feige is an American lawyer, legal commentator, and author. He is the author of the memoir, Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice, and co-creator of the TNT legal drama Raising the Bar, both of which centre on the life of the public defender. He is also the co-founder (along with his wife Robin Steinberg) and board chair of The Bronx Freedom Fund, a charitable bail organisation in New York State. In 2016 he won the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award for "Untouchable," a documentary feature he wrote, produced, and directed. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Feige was raised in Madison, Wisconsin. His mother was a social worker…

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Behind the camera

Untouchable poster
7.0

When a powerful Florida lobbyist discovered that a nanny sexually abused his daughter, he wielded all of his considered political capital to pass some of the strictest sex offender laws in the country. Today, 800,000 people are listed in the sex offender registry, yet the cycles of abuse continue. Moving from the halls of power to the cardboard homes of a marginalized pariah people, this enlightening documentary defies expectations and challenge assumptions to argue for a new understanding of how we think about and legislate sexual abuse.

Untouchable

2016

Untouchable poster
7.0

When a powerful Florida lobbyist discovered that a nanny sexually abused his daughter, he wielded all of his considered political capital to pass some of the strictest sex offender laws in the country. Today, 800,000 people are listed in the sex offender registry, yet the cycles of abuse continue. Moving from the halls of power to the cardboard homes of a marginalized pariah people, this enlightening documentary defies expectations and challenge assumptions to argue for a new understanding of how we think about and legislate sexual abuse.

Untouchable

2016

Untouchable poster
7.0

When a powerful Florida lobbyist discovered that a nanny sexually abused his daughter, he wielded all of his considered political capital to pass some of the strictest sex offender laws in the country. Today, 800,000 people are listed in the sex offender registry, yet the cycles of abuse continue. Moving from the halls of power to the cardboard homes of a marginalized pariah people, this enlightening documentary defies expectations and challenge assumptions to argue for a new understanding of how we think about and legislate sexual abuse.

Untouchable

2016

Shawna: Life on the Sex Offender Registry poster
NR

After having consensual sex with a younger boy while she was a still a teenager, Shawna Baldwin found herself one of the 800,000 people on American's sex offender registries. Now in her mid-thirties and a mother of two, this short documentary explores the effects that sex offender registration has had on her life.

Shawna: Life on the Sex Offender Registry

2017