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Liberated Lives

24m 19s

Filmmakers Lisa Riordan Seville, Kiara C. Jones, Nailah Jefferson, Darcy McKinnon, Adamu Chan and Stevie Walker-Webb talk with America ReFramed host Natasha Del Toro about their four films that speak to the theme of Liberated Lives. The panel discusses why they focused on family and friends supporting incarcerated loves ones, the collaborative process, and surviving and thriving outside of prison.

Aired: 03/27/24
Liberated Lives
Major funding for America ReFramed provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Funding provided by the MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Extras
Alaudin Ullah talks about his love for hip hop and rejecting his roots when he was growing up.
Alaudin Ullah opens up about growing up in Harlem as a Bengali American kid.
California farmworker housing rules force seasonal moves, upending Latinx students' education.
A Harlem playwright unearths the extraordinary pasts of his Bangladeshi immigrant parents.
Stevie Walker-Webb shares his hopes and fears for incarcerated people with mental illness.
For 24 hours, Stevie Walker-Webb is in "solitary confinement" to show its inhumanity.
Two brothers, one on the inside, share their hopes and dreams after incarceration.
Director Adamu Chan opens up about finding filmmaking inside San Quentin State Prison.
A conversation with WHAT THESE WALLS WON'T HOLD's Adamu Chan.
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