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- VICE follows the story of Trimarco, A 17 year old currently serving time at a Washington state youth jail, and whose about to be released on house arrest (along with the majority of the youth in that facility) in light of the dangers of COVID-19.
- "Akiachak" follows a team from Alaska Village Initiatives- a nonprofit dedicated to improving the well-being of rural Alaska Natives- as they travel to the village of Akiachak and present Plan Vivo to the local residents while addressing their concerns. Plan Vivo is a carbon credit program that would provide a way for tribal land to stimulate local economy without violating conservation efforts or disrupting the cultural lifestyle- in the words of AVI Program Coordinator Steven Holley, it's "a way for money to flow and the environment to grow" for these indigenous communities.
- For the Cajun of Louisiana a boucherie is a ritual of the same devotion as Mardi Gras and Jazz. A ritual which despite no longer being practiced out of necessity is kept alive - From the first gun shot at dawn, a small team of Cajuns begin to rapidly dismantle a hog whose parts are carved and passed in every direction. Hams hit the smoker, shoulders are tossed in pots of boiling water; fatback is diced, stomach intestines are rinsed before becoming casings for sausage and boudin. This is a boucherie. A ritual for the Cajun of Louisiana of a similar devotion as Mardi Gras and Jazz, but one that like many traditions once borne out of necessity is now fading into the past. OFFICIAL SELECTION Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival. OFFICIAL SELECTION New Orleans Film Festival.
- When the King County Council unanimously voted to fund Restorative Community Pathways on Nov. 17, 2020, it was the culmination of countless hours of hard work behind the scenes. Hours spent in the streets protesting, in the courtroom arguing and in the community spreading their message. Finally, in a year with so many challenges, there was a sign of hope. Restorative Community Pathways is a program that seeks to alter the current juvenile legal system and instead invest in a community-driven support system. The system focuses on racial equity and care for the youths, their families, those harmed and the community. The four organizations banded together for Restorative Community Pathways are CHOOSE 180, Collective Justice, Community Passageways and Creative Justice. Each of the four are local-based and share a common goal of ending youth incarceration. Working with those organizations and local filmmakers Gavin Sullivan and Bryan Tucker, the Seattle Seahawks helped produce a short documentary for the second year in a row. This year's documentary tells the story of Restorative Community Pathways and it's fight for funding in King County.
- Andrea Altheimer walked out of prison in March 2019, having served nearly 21 years of a 40-year sentence that King County (Washington State) Prosecutors ruled "shocking and excessive." Less than a week later, Altheimer was working with local at-risk teenagers and young women, trying to help them avoid the path that derailed her life nearly two decades prior. "Out Of The Fire," shadows Andrea in the months following her release as she takes on a mentorship role in the lives of more than a dozen kids. This includes young Chris'tionna who at 15-years-old is facing criminal charges, is pregnant, and with the odds stacked against her fighting to find balance and direction in her life. Circumstances eerily familiar to Andrea. Their relationship is at the core this short film that tells their story, and that of local non-profit Community Passageways, a Seattle-based felony diversion program that works to break the all too familiar cycle of Mass Incarceration impacting their community. As filmmakers, so much of the success of documentary is dictated by auspicious timing and circumstance, and in short engendering the confidence required in our subjects to tell a genuine story. Put simply, without having spent close to a year shadowing Dominique Davis (Community Passageways), we would not have had the intimate access to either Andrea or Chris'tionna. Both of whom demonstrated a humbling display of grace and strength in the face of unthinkable injustice and struggle, and in turn allowing us the public to bear witness.
- The youth are our future-- This Emmy-nominated campaign video introduces the Youth Achievement Center, a project spearheaded by young people in the South Seattle community. The vision for the YAC is to provide the local youth with what they need- that includes rooms for more than 100 residents, on-site childcare, health care, and counseling services, as well as dedicated social areas.
- Against the backdrop of King County's pledge to reach 'Zero Youth Detention', 17-year old Jamari faces up to four years of detention for pleading guilty to robbery. Leading up to his sentencing, community justice advocates will urge the judge that Jamari is reformed, but prosecutors are skeptical.
- In 2021, King County experienced a 50% increase in gun violence when compared to the previous four-year average. In response, Community Passageways, with the support of the Seattle City Council, made an urgent call for '30 Days of Peace,' and took 16 young men at risk of gun violence out of the city. This documentary won the Emmy for the best Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Documentary in the North West.
- "Community Passageways is a felony diversion program. That's where it started out to be, but it has grown other arms out of it and extended into... avenues that have to do with the school to prison pipeline. Our goal is to divert youth and young adults out of the criminal justice system and give them an opportunity to get housing, jobs, apprenticeships, internships, support systems from the community so that we can put them in a place to be successful." An Emmy-Winning short documentary, This is Why delves into the impacts and the work of Community Passageways, a felony diversion and prevention program in Seattle.