Short and Impactful Jawns:

Wide Open

(USA, Philadelphia, 2021, 7 min)

Directed by Wren Rene

Produced by Mark Strandquist and Courtney Bowles

In collaboration with the People's Paper Co-op with guidance by Faith Bartley and Debbie Africa

Paulette Carrington, Starr Granger, and Tamika Bell, were sentenced to life in prison as  teenagers. After decades in prison – over 90 years collectively – they were released after the US Supreme court ruled that sentencing youth to life without parole was unconstitutional. This short film poetically depicts some of what the transition home from prison has looked and felt like.

This film is part of a multi-media campaign uplifting women and trans people serving death by incarceration in Pennsylvania called Life Cycles Toward Freedom, a collaboration with Let's Get Free and the Women Lifer's Resume Project. 

Club with No Name

(USA, Philadelphia, 2020, 15 min) 

Directed by Nora Gross

The story of three Black Philadelphia mothers who lost their sons to neighborhood youth gun violence. They are forever bonded as members of this undesirable club, but finding ways to transform their pain into purpose.