Geeta Gandbhir's The Perfect Neighbor, which premiered in the US Documentary section of this year's Sundance, is likely one of the first feature docs primarily composed of police body camera footage. Sifting through footage with editor Viridiana Liberman ( The Sentence), Gandbhir builds out a suspenseful and heartbreaking portrait of neighborly violence in a close-knit Central Florida community, after white woman Susan Lorincz fatally shot Ajike Owens-Gandbhir's sister-in-law's best friend, though Gandbhir didn't know Owens personally.
The three remaining defendants charged with manslaughter in the 2019 deaths of a UPS driver and an innocent bystander are now arguing that they should be immune from prosecution under Florida's Stand Your Ground law, the same law invoked last month by a fourth Miami-Dade officer, whose charge was dismissed. Broward Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra ruled last month that Jose Mateo, 33, should not be
