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“Life After Life” Free Film Screening | Berkeley

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Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Cost: FREE
South Berkeley Senior Center | 2939 Ellis St, Berkeley, CA

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Life After Life by Tamara Perkins
After decades behind bars, three men set out to prove success can lie on the other side of tragedy.

“A really powerful statement… (Life After Life) presents such a clear message about what is wrong with the system.” – John Raphling, Human Rights Watch

Life After Life Screening at the South Berkeley Senior Center, April 10, 2018, 6pm – 9pm.
Free event

Post Film Discussion Featuring: Councilmember Ben Bartlett, Director Tamara Perkins, Reverend Daniel Buford, of Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action, Harrison Seuga, of Asian Prisoner Support Committee.

– life after life –
Producer and Director Tamara Perkins has been a leader in the social justice and juvenile justice reform movement within the Bay Area for over a decade. Her vision of creating Life After Life was inspired while working inside San Quentin State Prison as a Yoga and meditation instructor in 2006. Compelled to expose the devastating impact of incarceration on urban communities and the opportunity for transformation, Tamara teamed up with Co-Producer Jesse Dana to build support, access and collaborations to create life after life.

Setting Life After Life apart from other prison films is the extraordinary access to the incarcerated men, facilities, experts, and leaders in the system of corrections. Through her background in grief support, Tamara creates a safe environment for each subject, bringing authenticity to interviews that cover sensitive, personal stories. From her relationships and connections within the Bay Area social justice community, Tamara and the Life After Life team have developed significant relationships with policy and public agencies including the ACLU of Northern California, Alameda County Public Health, Equal Justice Society, The San Francisco Foundation and PolicyLink as well as universities such as Saint Mary’s University and San Francisco State University.

Life After Life has an opportunity to bring a voice to an issue deemed the “silent crisis”. With 1 in 31 American’s under the umbrella of corrections, there has never been a more pressing time to mobilize the public toward significant prison reform. Life After Life fulfills this opportunity by creating a contemporary documentary that creates intimacy for the viewer with an innovative photographic vision with the highest level of production. The film presents fact-based pragmatic arguments for change with an emotionally affecting visual representation to reach the broadest possible audience.

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Cost: FREE
Categories: Movies
Address: 2939 Ellis St, Berkeley, CA