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‘There Should Be No Prisons,’ Filmmakers Tell Incarcerated Men at San Quentin Film Festival
At the San Quentin Film Festival, attendees discussed prison abolition, demonstrated rehabilitation and celebrated one incarcerated man's new freedom.
W. Kamau Bell, the comic and TV host best known for CNN’s “United Shades of America” and Showtime’s “We Need to Talk About Cosby,” is here today to moderate a panel made up of the filmmakers whose documentaries we’ve just seen: some who are currently serving at San Quentin, some visiting after being released from here or other prisons. Louis Salé, whose short film “Healing Through Hula” follows him as he reconnects to his Hawaiian heritage from prison, says that he thinks of the project as “an apology letter to my culture” for abandoning it and turning to alcohol in the time before his crime, a DUI fatality. Brad Jenkins, former associate director of the White House’s public engagement office under President Obama and CEO of Enfranchisement Productions, concurs after a screening of “Four Letters.” The short film follows Charles Anderson, a man who used the coding skills he learned in prison to launch a successful career after his release.
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