Notable video about film-maker’s clemency efforts “Netflix-ing them out of prison”

The New York Times has this new Opinion Video under the headline “An Unlikely Last Resort for Getting Out of Prison,” and the quoted portion of the title of this post is drawn from a line in the ten-minute video. I recommend the video, and here is how the NYT sets it up in text:

Using lights, a camera and a tried-and-true narrative formula, Matt Nadel produces short films about incarcerated people in New York. His goal? To persuade the governor, Kathy Hochul, to grant his clients clemency.

Thanks to the tough-on-crime zeitgeist that began in the 1980s, governors have often come to view clemency as a political liability rather than an opportunity to give people second chances. Grants of clemency in New York, for example, have plummeted as a result. Filmmakers like Mr. Nadel — hired by lawyers — have become a last resort. “It feels like I’m trying to hack a broken system,” he says.

But as Mr. Nadel argues in the Opinion Video above, it shouldn’t require such an elaborate production to get people out of prison.

I suspect AI technologies could make it much easier and more affordable to create clemency videos, but I am unsure whether and how clemency advocates and clemecy decision-makers will be comfortable with the use of cutting-edge technologies in this setting.