Pervert Park

Pervert Park is a 2014 documentary film directed by Swedish-Danish filmmaking couple Frida and Lasse Barkfors. The film's focus is Palace Mobile Park in St. Petersburg, Florida, nicknamed "Pervert Park", which houses over 100 convicted sex offenders. The film premiered at Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. It won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.[2] It had a television premiere as an episode of POV on July 11, 2016.

Pervert Park
Directed byLasse and Frida Barkfors
Produced byAnne Köhncke[1]
Production
company
Running time
75 minutes
CountriesDenmark
Sweden
LanguageEnglish

Production

The Barkfors read an article about Florida Justice Transitions in a Danish newspaper which provoked their interest in the park, which they got the impression was "a society of its own". They visited the park for the first time in 2010 and found it to be very different from their expectations.[3] The film took four years to make.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Anne Köhncke".
  2. Staff (February 1, 2015). "Sundance Film Festival Announces 2015 Award Winners". The Wall Street Journal. News Corp. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  3. Salovaara, Sarah (January 23, 2015). "Five Questions with Pervert Park Directors Frida and Lasse Barkfors". Filmmaker. Independent Filmmaker Project. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  4. Kang, Inkoo (January 21, 2015). "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Friday Barkfors - 'Pervert Park'". IndieWire. Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on February 4, 2015. Retrieved February 4, 2015.

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