RICOCHET toured extensively in Matt Gonzalez’s home state of Texas with stops at Thin Line Fest in Denton (Special Recognition for Editing) and the Festival de Cine Latino Americano in Dallas (Honorable Mention), as well as Cine Las Americas in Austin (Audience Award Best Documentary Feature), CineFestival San Antonio, the Houston Latino Film Festival, and the Lost River Film Festival. The film also screened along the Texas-Mexico border with stops in Matt’s hometown of McAllen for the CineSol Film Festival (Best Documentary Feature), Laredo Film Society, and the El Paso Film Festival where RICOCHET won both the Grand Jury Prize and the award for Best Documentary Feature.

It took 5 long years for the RICOCHET team to share our film with local San Francisco audiences in person for the first time at the Opening Night of SF DocFest. We invoked the memory of SF Public Defender and Director Jeff Adachi. screened to a packed house and had a wonderful Q&A afterwards with public defenders Matt Gonzalez, Francisco Ugarte, and Director Chihiro Wimbush with good friend and SF DocFest Senior Programmer Chris Metzler moderating. We were excited to have so many members of the SF Office of the Public Defender in attendance with us, cheering along, and Jeff’s widow Mutsuko.

SF Chronicle:

“RICOCHET Goes Inside Gnarliest Case of San Francisco Public Defender's Office”

SF Standard:

LOOKING BACK ON the runup to the 2016 election and its attendant media circus, certain events loom larger than others: The surreal spectacle of Donald Trump’s golden escalator speech, the Access Hollywood tape, Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables,” the laptop. And then there was the tragic killing of Kate Steinle on July 1, 2015, at Pier 14 in San Francisco.

In Ricochet, the unmissable new documentary from co-directors Chihiro Wimbush and the late Jeff Adachi—San Francisco’s former public defender—the death of Steinle is reexamined and unpacked for its historical significance. “

48 hills:

"An engrossing look at a freak occurrence that became a cause celebre for all the wrong reasons, helping define the vindictive, emotion-driven political landscape we’ve been stuck with ever since."

RICOCHET was the Opening Night Film for the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival in Oregon and won the Jason D. Mak Award for Social Justice. This festival was a full circle for me as one of my first films premiered here back in the festiva’s early days, back when I was still creating narrative films, and also a return to Oregon where I spent over two years working in Portland Community Radio. Can’t say enough wonderful things about the dedicated and kind staff here, then and now, and it’s fun to see how we’ve grown over nearly 15 years. Matt Gonzalez and I got to do a spacious Q&A after the screening with an engaged audience.