Latest in Rudy Valdez

EXCLUSIVE: Marginal MediaWorks is expanding into scripted series with Hummingbird, an hour-long, LatinX genre series, which was sold to Amazon Studios, following a competitive bidding situation. The episodic series is described as “a Stephen King-style American Gothic,” loosely inspired by the life of Emmy-winning…

"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 impact of mandatory minimum drug sentences on one tight-knit family. In 2007 Shank was married and raising three…

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 federal prison for conspiracy charges related to crimes committed by her deceased ex-boyfriend—something known, in legal…

HBO has acquired US television and streaming rights to the documentary The Sentence, which premiered at Sundance this month. First-time director Rudy Valdez’s film looks at the aftermath of his sister's incarceration, examining the consequences of mandatory minimum sentencing. His sister, Cindy Shank, received a…

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 federal prison for conspiracy charges related to crimes committed by her deceased ex-boyfriend—something known, in legal…