Journalism Club Event: Director Linda Freund

On Tuesday, April 14 from 12-1 p.m. Director Linda Freund will come to HUM 308 for students to watch her Oscar long list nominated documentary The Window on Death Row, followed by a Q&A with the director. The Window on Death Row is about Joaquín José Martínez, the first Spaniard ever exonerated from U.S. death row. The documentary asks urgent questions: Is there ever an ethical reason to kill someone? Is closure possible for the victims’ families? And how do we reconcile the contradiction that facing a death sentence, even an unjust one, can paradoxically lead to a second chance at life?

Linda Freund is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist based in Barcelona. She directed the documentaries The Migrant Priest (2022, Italy) and The Window on Death Row (2025, Spain). Most recently, she was a senior video journalist at The Wall Street Journal and a journalism fellow at both the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture and Brandeis University’s Chaplaincy Innovation Lab. Previously, she reported from conflict zones across South Asia and East Africa.

This event will count toward the Journalism Event requirement. Please sign in through the QR code posted in the room and notify your journalism professors that you attended.