Some of the most successful true-crime docs stand out as having changed the course of the investigations they document— think THE STAIRCASE or THE JINX. By irrevocably altering the fates of their subjects, these docs ask questions about the role of documentaries in bearing witness and nature of truth. SILENT VIGIL is a character-driven, one hour crime drama that imbues its protagonist, filmmaker Lalo Vigil, with the often competing desires for objectivity and success as he turns his lens onto a long buried family secret in Northern California’s wine region.