54 minutes that'll wreck your timeline and your heart in the best way.
Profiled is a feature length documentary that knits the stories of mothers of Black and Latin unarmed youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S. Driven by anger when their demands for justice are ignored the women transition from grieving parents to activists participating in the grass roots movement now spreading across the country since the much-publicized deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
Direction
Foster centers mothers' voices, never exploitation.
Editing
Crucial historical context woven without losing urgency.
Director
Kathleen Foster
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released before widespread streaming docs became mainstream activism tools; prescient in its distribution strategy.
Kathleen Foster spent years building trust with families—a rarity in true crime doc culture that often extracts and vanishes.
US
