At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the American Civil Liberties Union’s Campaign for Smart Justice hit the annual event with a major new milestone: revealing its first-ever batch of Sundance-debuting original content, care of a trio of animated short films that tell the first-hand stories of three people who have been incarcerated: Lavette Mayes, Jason Hernandez, and Johnny Perez. You can read more about the project and its genesis right here.
Each film sensitively and honestly depicts the cost and impact of imprisonment, including its effects on not just those that are incarcerated, but also their families and communities. By using the firsthand accounts of Mayes, Hernandez, and Perez, the short films also shine an important light on how things like cash bail and extreme sentencing further exacerbate already tough circumstances.
The Aclu Campaign for Smart Justice is “an unprecedented, multiyear effort to reduce the U.S. jail...
Each film sensitively and honestly depicts the cost and impact of imprisonment, including its effects on not just those that are incarcerated, but also their families and communities. By using the firsthand accounts of Mayes, Hernandez, and Perez, the short films also shine an important light on how things like cash bail and extreme sentencing further exacerbate already tough circumstances.
The Aclu Campaign for Smart Justice is “an unprecedented, multiyear effort to reduce the U.S. jail...
- 2/12/2018
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
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