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