EXCLUSIVE: The award-winning documentary Free Leonard Peltier screens at the world-renowned International Documentary Festival Amsterdam ( IDFA ) on Friday – but it won’t be the same version that premiered at Sundance last January.

The film directed by David France and Jesse Short Bull has been updated with dramatic new footage of Peltier, the American Indian Movement leader, recorded as he walked out of prison where he had been held for almost 50 years after his conviction in the killing of two FBI agents. President Biden, in the last 15 minutes of his term before Pres. Trump was sworn in on January 20, made the momentous decision to commute Peltier’s sentence.

In the clip above, you can watch some of the new material incorporated in the updated version of Free Leonard Pel

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