Visions of Justice: Just Us Film Screening | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

“SFPL’s The Bridge at Main and The Reentry Council of San Francisco invite you to join us for a film series exploring themes of reentry, juvenile and criminal justice. Each screening will be followed by a panel discussion hosted by a local community organization.
The next film in the series, Just Us, is sponsored by the Reentry Council of San Francisco and The Bridge at Main.
Just Us, a documentary from filmmaker Nyjia July, carefully examines one of the biggest problems plaguing the justice system – the epidemic of generational imprisonment.
Image of Just Us film posterSet in the Mission area of San Francisco, the film introduces criminal and juvenile justice advocate, Joanna Hernandez. A former teenage mother who spent many years in and out of jail, Hernandez co-founded the community group Young Queens On The Rise with the goal of helping at-risk youth avoid her mistakes. Her world is rocked when her own son is arrested for a serious crime. Just Us follows Hernandez to various court hearings, jail visits and town hall meetings. Although Hernandez is used to advocating for her clients, she has difficulty dealing with the magnitude of what could possibly happen to her son, the person closest in the world to her. How could this happen? Was her work in vain? What’s next?
There will be a panel discussion following the film led by the filmmaker, Nyjia July, and including Joanna Hernandez, the film’s subject, as well as Ricardo Garcia-Acosta, Youth Development Specialist and Juvenile Advisory Council Coordinator for SF Juvenile Probation.”

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