Justice On Trial Film Festival

Tutwiler

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Tutwiler

Directed By: Elaine McMillion Sheldon

Screening: October 2, 2021 4:17 pm

Running Time: 34 minutes

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Tutwiler, a documentary short from FRONTLINE (PBS) and The Marshall Project, offers a powerful and unforgettable window into the lives of incarcerated pregnant women — and what happens to their newborns. What is it like to give birth — and then be forced to say goodbye to your baby 24 hours later? To most mothers, it’s a scenario that’s unimaginable. But it’s a reality for the dozens of pregnant women behind bars in any given year at Alabama’s notorious Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon (Heroin(e), Recovery Boys) and reported and produced by The Marshall Project’s Alysia Santo.

 

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Saturday, October 2nd Schedule (PDT)

3:00 p.m. | Opening Remarks
Bonnie Amos, Communications Associate, A New Way of Life

3:10 p.m. | Screening
Racially Charged

3:46 p.m. | Screening
Fighting for Family

4:17 p.m. | Screening
Tutwiler

4:55 p.m. | Panel

5:55 p.m. | Encore Screening
Racially Charged

6:31 p.m. | Encore Screening
Fighting for Family

7:02 p.m. | Encore Screening
Tutwiler

Speakers

Chauntel Norris

Chauntel Norris is a dynamic DONA trained birth doula, Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator and Certified Lactation Counselor. She serves as Co-director for the Alabama Prison Birth Project where she provides compassionate and dignified care to pregnant and postpartum incarcerated women.

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Bruce Reilly, J.D.

Bruce is the Deputy Director of Voice of the Experienced (VOTE) in New Orleans and a graduate of Tulane Law School. He served as a self-taught jailhouse lawyer while incarcerated for 12 years, before organizing with Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE).

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