I think that’s one of the reasons no one told this story before because they never knew that the footage existed. A majority of the archival is from WRAL’s public archives. Those range from evidence emerging from the case with Chris Mumma’s efforts with her public filings. We went through a variety of ways of retrieving the various pieces of information. How much access were you able to get to court documents, testimonies from key individuals that aided in this being never-before-seen-or-heard footage and information regarding the case? And how did you go about retrieving that? I was 13 when the crimes took place and that’s a seminole experience. We had an awareness of it that I don’t think the rest of the country did. It was probably the largest criminal case in the history of the state. And this was reported on the nightly news every night for years in NC. We had the convergence of all these things along with the root of all being from NC. And then Chris Mumma had taken Daniel Green on as a client so she was uncovering all this new evidence they had never known publicly before as part of the filings she was making with the state in an effort to get Daniel a new evidentiary hearing. Just a great Emmy winning team who had already started working on the story. We worked on it together along with a great team of journalists from WRAL. We started talking about the project and I officially got on board in 2019. He called me in 2018 and said “Matt, I’m seeing all the footage that we have that no one has seen in all this time. Simultaneously, they were going through their archives and unlike a lot of local news archives, WRAL kept everything.They were digitizing their archives and got through the ‘90s. He saw what I was going in the doc and film world. We went to high school together and were friends growing up. Jimmy Goodmon, one of the executive producers of the series, his family owns WRAL in Raleigh and he and I grew up together. It actually played an even bigger role in how this series came to be. Was this personal for you at all? How intimate did that help in getting you to the subject matter?īeing from NC absolutely influences my wanting to tell this story. You’re originally from North Carolina, where this all took place. We felt there was so much to explore in the story at the time but also there’s a lot of new developments that have emerged about the case in the past few decades. So if you took a look at the coverage that took place in NC which is where I grew up and first saw this news coverage, it wasn’t in such a greater amount of detail that had never been reported on a national level. And that was at a time when the local news went national. It had only been seen 25-28 years ago on the NC nightly news. So much of this footage had never been seen before. James Jordan’s murder is a gateway to a larger story of what happens afterwards and at trial. It didn’t really affect the overall story we were telling but knowing they were doing an in-depth story about Michael’s life, we knew this would be a deeper dive for audiences who had questions around his father’s case. We were in production on this in 2018 and at the time we didn’t know about The Last Dance. ![]() They had a commercial for The Last Dance and we were like “oh, okay”. I was in Raleigh working with the team at lunch and we were at a sports bar with ESPN on. We were in production for this project prior to even knowing about The Last Dance. Thanks so much for chatting with me to talk about your latest project, Moment of Truth, which documents the murder and subsequent investigation into Michael Jordan’s father James Jordan. We spoke to Perniciaro about the project: Fans of last year’s The Last Dance may recall the horrible story of Jordan’s murder, but MOMENT OF TRUTH explores the circumstances surrounding the murder further by exposing the rampant corruption in the small North Carolina town where the heinous crime and subsequent trial occurred. The series tells the never-before-seen story behind the murder of Michael Jordan’s father, James Jordan, in 1993. Award-winning producer Matthew Perniciaro is making his directorial debut with the Amazon Studios/IMDBtv original docuseries Moment of Truth: The Killing of James Jordan.
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