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The First Film Festival Inside a Prison: How a Formerly Incarcerated Documentarian Secured Approval, Funding and Celebrity Jurors for San Quentin’s Inaugural Event
Rahsaan Thomas and Cori Thomas explain the journey to launch the San Quentin Film Festival — the world's first film festival inside of a prison.
After the podcast, Cori became what Rahsaan calls a San Quentin “super volunteer,” spending hours in the media center and bringing work to the incarcerated people she met there. But the pandemic hit shortly after those first conversations, cutting off Cori’s access to San Quentin for two years and kicking the festival far down the prison’s list of priorities. “Every Second” is a narrative short film screening at San Quentin from formerly incarcerated directors Antwan Williams and Maurice Reed alongside Reyna Brown.
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