Benevolence: A Journey From Prison to Home: Follows the journey of five women as they are released from prison and move onto Benevolence Farm in Alamance County, NC. BENEVOLENCE addresses the unique reentry needs of justice-involved women and provides viewers a rare opportunity to understand the personal experiences that formerly incarcerated women face when they leave prison. This documentary film is an important educational tool for engaging with contemporary issues related to women and criminal justice reform.
Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools: Inspired by the groundbreaking book of the same name by Monique W. Morris, Ed.D, PUSHOUT: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS takes a deep dive into the lives of Black girls and the practices, cultural beliefs and policies that disrupt one of the most important factors in their lives – education. Alarmingly, African American girls are the fastest-growing population in the juvenile justice system and the only group of girls to disproportionately experience criminalization at every education level.
Countering Pushout: Drawing from the documentary Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, these professional development modules feature interactive animated video scenarios along with guidance from experts in the fields of social justice, gender equality, and educational equity. The educators give context to common disruptions experienced in schools and provide a roadmap for how to provide a positive, rather than punitive, response to often misunderstood and misrepresented student behaviors.
Hometown Prison: Huntsville is the capital of the Texas prison colossus, with seven prisons in the area and one quarter of the town's adult population incarcerated. In his second documentary, five-time Oscar® nominated filmmaker Richard Linklater, whose Huntsville background has informed several of his feature films, takes on the divisive and heated issues of the penal system in his home state which upholds the death penalty despite waning popularity and where nearly 1,000 people in Huntsville alone have been legally put to death.
Documenting Police Use of Force: Investigating deaths after police used tactics like prone restraint and other “less lethal” force. With The Associated Press, drawing on police records, autopsy reports and body cam footage, the most expansive tally of such deaths nationwide.