When one talks about personal filmmaking as a pathway to something special, they’d be hard-pressed to come up with a better example than Evolution of a Criminal, director Darius Clark Monroe’s documentary examination of a bank robbery he committed as a teenager. The winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Full Frame Film Festival and part of the Summer Showcase section at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the movie — lent his name by executive producer Spike Lee — is an engrossing evocation of poverty in America, as well as, more pointedly, a moving look at redemption and second chances. Continue reading LAFF: Evolution of a Criminal →