Description
Synopsis:
Every weekday, inmates are released from Huntsville State Penitentiary, taking in their first moments of freedom with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block.
About the directors:
Jamie Meltzer’s feature documentary films have been broadcast nationally on PBS and have screened at numerous film festivals worldwide. His documentary feature, True Conviction (2017), premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival where it received a Special Jury Mention in the Best Documentary Feature category. Informant (2012) was released in theaters in the US and Canada in Fall 2013. Previous films include: Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story (2003), Welcome to Nollywood (2007) and La Caminata (2009). He teaches and is the Program Director of the M.F.A. Program in Documentary Film at Stanford University.
Chris Filippone is documentary filmmaker whose work has screened in the Berlinale, Visions du Reel, SXSW, Hot Docs and others. His film Scrap (2017) won the Spirit Award for Short Documentary at the Brooklyn Film Festival in 2017 and A View from the Window (2018) was nominated for Best of the Year Award on Vimeo. He is a graduate of Stanford University’s M.F.A. Documentary Film program and is currently a Lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute.