Welcome to Inthrive Film Festival: Boston
In partnershp with the Emerson Prision Initiative we're excited to return to Boston for a two day event at three venues throughout the Boston area!
Come and be challenged, inspired, and motivated to take action!
Join us in boston!
2 Days. 3 Unique experiences.
We start on Monday, March 16 at MCI-Norfolk with a special screening behind the prison walls.
On Tuesday, March 17, Emerson College's Bright Family Screening Room in the Emerson Paramount Center is the venue for a day packed with film screenings & panel discussions featuring filmmakers, musicians, and advocates sharing how they are thriving and rewritten the narrative of surviving incarceration.
On Tuesday night we join with our friends at Haley House for a special community screening focusing on reentry.
Come be a part of the community of incarceration survivors, advocates, allies, and friends who are working to remove barriers to successful reentry!
Schedule of Events
MONDAY, MARCH 16
MCI-Norfolk
A special screening behind the prison walls with the residents of MCI-Norfolk and participants in Emerson's Prison Initative. At this private event we'll be challenging perspectives with Two Wolves and On Beyond Fences.
TUESDAY, MARCH 17 (DAY)
Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Center
10:00AM - Alexis B. 9th & Gasoline visual album followed by discussion with Freer Records about the first visual album from an incarcerated female artist
Noon - And Water Brings Tommorrow an expansive exploration of how incarceration survivors are leading the fight to reimagine carceral places as healing spaces
2:00PM - Documentaries on Family & Reentry
Weekend Visits
The Candle
Autumn
Breaking Barriers
Chasing Redemption
5 moving shorts that humanize the incarceration and reentry experience through stories of family, community, and overcoming. Followed by a virtual conversation with filmmakers. Four are made by incarceration survivors.
4:00pm - Shorts Confonting Incarceration
Space To Breathe
It's Not Okay
Hidden Blueprints: The Story of Mikey
Shoebox
Advocacy is Life or Death
5 shorts, 4 written and created by incarceration survivors, that reveal the struggles of the carceral system that will challenge and inspire you.
TUESDAY, MARCH 17 (EVENING)
Haley House
12 Dade Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
7:00PM - Reentry: Boston & Beyond
Re-Enter: My New Community (2014, Ryan Egan, Christine Maroon, Megan McLoughlin, & Gina Varamo with Bob Nesson)
Disrupted: Injustice, Trauma, and Healing
Films
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