Amanda Knox; Image courtesy Netflix(NEW YORK) — A new documentary on Amanda Knox premieres today on Netflix.
The film, simply titled Amanda Knox, explores the 2007 murder of Knox’s roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, while the two were studying in Italy. Knox was twice convicted and twice acquitted in the case.
Her boyfriend at the time of the murder, Raffaele Sollecito, was also convicted and eventually acquitted in the case.
Knox cooperated with the making of the documentary, which was directed by Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn.
Blackhurst says they initially approached Knox after her first acquittal.
“It wasn’t until two years later she decided she wanted to talk to us,” he shares with ABC Radio. “Back in 2011 she said she wasn’t ready and she didn’t want to let a documentary be made with her participating in it.”
McGinn says Knox was a fascinating subject because “she’d been defined as this sexual creature, as this, you know, these headlines had labeled her as a she-devil or as any of these names that had been applied to her.”
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