RICOCHET had its in-person World Premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on March 4-5, 2022 with public defenders Matt Gonzalez and Francisco Ugarte, along with Director Chihiro Wimbush, and co-Director Jeff Adachi’s widow Mutsuko in attendance. The film was selected among the Best of the Festival:
“Given the heftier program and the long days/nights of taking in as much as possible, this critic’s Top Ten needed to breathe a bit, stretching to a Top Dozen: Miss Viborg (Marianne Blicher), The Righteous (Mark O’Brien), Islands (Martin Edralin), Nitram (Justin Kerzel), You Resemble Me (Dina Emer), The Good Boss (Fernando Leon de Aranoa), 107 Women (Péter Kerekes), NÖ (Dietrich Brüggemann), House of Darkness (Neil LaBute), La Hija (Manuel Martín Cuenca), One Road to Quartzsite (Ryan Maxey), Ricochet (Jeff Adachi, Chihiro Wimbush).
"Everyone loves a story about crusaders against injustice in the legal system, and on that level, Ricochet delivers"
Santa Barbara Independent Review:
"Amidst the dizzying swirl of sensationalist and partisan national news media, the independent documentary form has become a vital corrective and side channel of information. That’s certainly the case with the powerful and eye-opening doc Ricochet"