Casting JonBenet

Casting JonBenet is a sly and stylized exploration of the world’s most sensational child-murder
case, the still unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. After
years of media speculation and public fascination, audiences are presented with a documentary
hybrid examining the macabre legacy of this tiny starlet. Over 15 months, the filmmakers
traveled to the Ramseys’ Colorado hometown to elicit responses, reflections and even
performances from the local community. In doing so, Casting JonBenet examines how this
crime and its resulting mythologies have shaped the attitudes and behavior of successive
generations of parents and children.