The Mind of Mark DeFriest

The Mind of Mark DeFriest (also known as The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest) is an American documentary film about Mark DeFriest, a man imprisoned by the State of Florida since 1980, who spent 27 of those years in solitary confinement. His original four-year sentence, for taking his father's tools after his death, before they had been released to him by the court, and then fleeing the police, has been repeatedly extended due to numerous escape attempts, seven of which were successful, and because of infractions committed while in prison.^[1][2][3]

The Mind of Mark DeFriest
Directed by	Gabriel London
Produced by	Daniel J. Chalfen Gabriel London Charlie Sadoff
Starring	Mark DeFriest Ron McAndrew John Middleton Bonnie DeFriest Barbie Taylor Robert Berland
Cinematography	Eric Koretz William Charles Moss Andreas Wagner
Edited by	Nick Clark
Music by	Ronan Coleman
Distributed by	Found Objects and Naked Edge Films
Release date	April 21, 2014 (2014-04-21)
Running time	100 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

"If I was a rapist or a murderer, they'd let me out," DeFriest says in the film. "But I'm the idiot who made them look like idiots."^[4]

Reception

The film won the 2014 Best Documentary Feature award at the Lone Star Film Festival.^[5] It has a score of 82% on Metacritic.^[6]