Justice On Trial Film Festival

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Monday, October 4th

Thank you for attending the 2021 Justice on Trial Film Festival!

The evening will be broken down into three parts:

  1. The Opening Remarks
    Please open the “Opening Remarks/Panels” tab during this part of the event. It should have opened automatically when you loaded the page.
  2. The Film Screening(s)
    For the film screenings, please open the “Films” tab found directly below the “Opening Remarks/Panels” section and above the Justice on Trial Film Festival logo in the donations section by clicking on the text or the plus (+) sign next to it.
  3. The Panel Discussions
    For the panel discussions, please go back and open the “Opening Remarks/Panels” tab again by clicking on the text or the plus (+) sign next to it, immediately below this text.

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Thank you and enjoy the event!

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Schedule

The Girl Inside

Screening: October 4, 2021 3:10 pm

Running Time: 11 minutes

“The Girl Inside” is a short documentary by 1 Girl Revolution, in partnership with BEHOLD, which features a poignant look at the stories of incarcerated women within Cook County Jail and a life-changing academic course taught by Dr. Laura Biagi (formerly of DePaul University in Chicago) called, “Storytelling as a Healing Art.” This short documentary, which is a part of an ongoing series featuring the stories of everyday women changing the world through their lives, reunites Dr. Biagi with five of her former students for a special one day course on the transformative power of our stories and our voices – and what is revealed is: “The Girl Inside.”

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Testif-i: The Fight to Reunite

Limited Series

Screening: October 4, 2021 3:16 pm

Running Time: 26 minutes

Testif-i | Storytelling for Change is a multimedia initiative from A New Way of Life that aims to transform the public dialogue on mass incarceration through storytelling and the lived experiences of formerly incarcerated women. Testif-i will broaden the conversation to include perspectives and insights through the unique lens of gender, race and justice. The 2021 Testif-i series focuses on the difficulties of repairing family connections after a long prison sentence, finding personal freedom, and building a future beyond incarceration. Our discussion will focus on a parents’ fight to reunite with their children after incarceration. Our participants include one formerly incarcerated mother, the child of a formerly incarcerated mother, and two family reunification lawyers. Each year, jails separate 2.3 million mothers away from their children (Prison Policy Initiative), a phenomenon disproportionately affecting Black and Brown women. Even a short stay in jail can result in the permanent loss of one’s children resulting in devastating harms to a child who needs their mother. According to the Marshall Project between 2006 and 2016, tens of thousands of children were placed into foster care solely because a parent was incarcerated. The parental rights of 5,000 of these children were eventually taken away entirely.

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