From the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series
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Directed by: Evan Bode, Marvin Wade | Production Company: Project Mend | United States | 6:59
PASSWORD: projectmend Filmmaker Evan Bode animates excerpts of an essay by writer & activist Marvin Wade, who speaks personally about his 25 years of incarceration—and the growth he achieved in spite of, not because of, the inhumane prison system around him.This collaboration was produced by Project Mend, an organization in Central New York which celebrates the lives and creative work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people as well as other individuals impacted by the criminal legal system.
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