Rudy Valdez was not a filmmaker when he started the long, emotional journey of making the documentary film The Sentence, which detailed the aftermath of his sister Cindy Shank’s 15-year sentence in ...

"Missing my daughters grow up - that's what I was sentenced to." HBO has debuted the official trailer for a documentary titled The Sentence, which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the ...

HBO has acquired U.S. television and streaming rights to the documentary feature film “The Sentence” in the wake of its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. First-time filmmaker Rudy Valdez’s movie ...

The new documentary ‘The Sentence’ opens with a Michigan family hustling to get six-year-old Autumn ready for her dance recital as her two younger sisters play in the background. Then the phone rings.

Home movies and mandatory minimums create a tale guaranteed to make you sob in Rudy Valdez's documentary, 'The Sentence.' By Daniel Fienberg Based on the 10 minutes of extended sniffling and even ...

“Missing my daughters growing up. That’s what I was sentenced to.” Cindy Shank voices those words in The Sentence, an HBO documentary directed by her younger brother, Rudy Valdez, that explores the ...

"I wasn’t a filmmaker when I started making this. I didn’t even know what I was doing at the beginning," reveals Rudy Valdez about his HBO documentary, "The Sentence," which is nominated at this ...