Noted documentary filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky dies at 58

Associated PressPublished: February 22, 2015

File-This Jan. 28, 2012, file photo shows director Bruce Sinofsky, arriving at the 64th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles. Sinofsky, an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker who gained prominence for his works that shined a spotlight on a child murder case in a small southern town, has died. He was 58. SinofskyÃs death was announced by his longtime collaborator Joe Berlinger. He said Sinofsky died Saturday in his sleep of complications from diabetes. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)

MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) -- Oscar-nominated and Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky has died at age 58.

His longtime collaborator Joe Berlinger announced the death on Twitter on the eve of the Oscars. He says Sinofsky died Saturday of complications from diabetes.

Sinofsky and Berlinger drew praise and attention for their "Paradise Lost" trilogy, a series of films focused on the case of three teenage boys convicted in 1994 of killing three other boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. The films raised questions about evidence used to convict the teens, who became known as the West Memphis Three.

Sinofsky and Berlinger also collaborated on the critically acclaimed "Brother's Keeper," which documented the case of an elderly man accused of killing his brother, and on "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster," about the renowned heavy metal band.

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