Commuted
TFI Suppport
Logline
After serving twenty-three years in prison separated from her two children, Danielle Metz returns home when her sentence is commuted by President Obama. COMMUTED follows her life as she rebuilds her relationships with family and fights a system that is incarcerating women at an unprecedented rate.
Nailah Jefferson
Director
Nailah is a New Orleans based filmmaker inspired by the enduring human spirit, whose films span fiction and nonfiction. Her acclaimed work has been distributed domestically and internationally on the film festival circuit, theatrically and televised. Nailah’s documentary VANISHING PEARLS: THE OYSTERMEN OF POINTE A LA HACHE told the story of an African American oyster fishing community in Plaquemines Parish and their fight for justice after the 2010 BP Oil Spill. The film was acquired by Array. Nailah’s narrative film PLAQUEMINES was chosen as an American Black Film Festival HBO Shorts finalist and is currently available on HBO platforms.
Darcy McKinnon
Producer
Darcy McKinnon is a documentary filmmaker, ED of the New Orleans Video Access Center, and co-founder of All Y’all, the Southern Documentary Collective with Elaine McMillion Sheldon. In addition to A FINE GIRL, she is currently producing two feature docs: NEUTRAL GROUND (ITVS), with director CJ Hunt, about the removal of New Orleans’ confederate monuments; Nailah Jefferson’s COMMUTED, about Danielle Metz, a New Orleans woman whose triple life sentence was commuted after 23 years in prison.