Reentry
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Logline
In a midwestern state, battered by both the opioid crisis and high incarceration rates, three mothers prepare to return from prison to their communities and families. As they struggle to mend relationships with their children after years of separation, their stories show how poverty, drugs, and incarceration are destroying family ties, and how women working together can help each other rebuild their lives.
Jennifer Redfearn
Director
Jennifer Redfearn is an Oscar nominated director. SUN COME UP follows an island community losing their land to rising seas. It was nominated for an Oscar, screened in theaters across the U.S. and aired on HBO. TOCANDO LA LUZ (TOUCH THE LIGHT) was co-produced with ITVS and aired on the World Channel. Jennifer has produced TV documentaries for PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, CNN, and Discovery and several multimedia stories for MediaStorm. Jennifer is an Associate Professor at Boston University. She has received a fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and grants from NEA, Fork Films, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Jerome Foundation, NYSCA and NYWIFT, and co-production funding from ITVS.
Tim Metzger
Producer
Tim Metzger is an Academy Award nominated producer and Emmy nominated cinematographer. Tim filmed and produced the 2011 Oscar nominee SUN COME UP, as well as the award-winning feature documentary TOCANDO LA LUZ (TOUCH THE LIGHT). He has served as director of photography for several major Emmy-nominated series, including National Geographic's THE STORY OF GOD WITH MORGAN FREEMAN and RISING: REBUILDING GROUND ZERO for Discovery, executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Over the past 15 years Tim has filmed in more than 20 countries and his work has also appeared on PBS, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and HBO among others.