Jacinta (Working Title)
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JACINTA (working title) follows a young mother in and out of prison in Maine, while exploring the relationship between trauma and love within a family fractured by a cycle of addiction and incarceration.
Jessica Earnshaw
Director, Producer
Jessica Earnshaw is an award-winning photojournalist based in New York whose work focuses on criminal justice and healthcare. As a documentary photographer Jessica is a contributor to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. In 2015, she received the prestigious Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Fellowship to photograph aging in American prisons. In 2016 her “Aging in Prison” work was published by National Geographic and also made Buzzfeed’s top ten list of most interesting photo stories of the week. In 2017, the next chapter of her aging in prison work, centering on re-entry after a life sentence was published in Mother Jones and The Marshall Project.
Holly Meehl
Producer
Holly Meehl is a film producer living in Brooklyn. She is a co-producer on Yael Melamede’s documentary feature (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies, which premiered at Full Frame and Hot Docs Film Festivals in 2015. In the same year, Holly launched her own production company, Lunamax Films, and is currently producing a feature documentary, FOR THE BIRDS, which was selected for the IFP Documentary Lab in 2016 as well as a fiction feature titled IN REALITY which was selected for the IFP Screen Forward Lab in the same year; both films are slated for release in 2018.