Wide-Eyed takes on death row inmate doc

May 12, 2009 An innocent man who spent 23 years on death row without regretting "a single day" is the unlikely hero of a planned feature-length documentary from U.K.-based indie production company Wide-Eyed Entertainment. The project marks a series of firsts for the company, including their debut dip into feature-length filmmaking, their first trip to Cannes' Marche du Film and their first effort backed by visual effects house Red Vision VFX. Wide-Eyed, formed by television production vets and financiers Jasper James, Parule Basu-Barua and David McNab and partnered with Red Vision, plans to bring the story of death row inmate Nick Yarris -- once on the FBI's most-wanted list -- to the big screen.

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