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Please Note: This event has expired.
Stream on Rafael@Home starting 5/22
Free filmmaker/activist livestream Q&A, 5/27
16 BARS is a feature length music documentary that offers a rare glimpse at the human stories — and songs — that are locked away in our nation’s jails and prisons.
The film follows a unique rehabilitation effort in the Richmond City Justice Center that invites inmates to write and record original music.
In the jail’s makeshift recording studio, 4 men collaborate on an album with a Grammy-winning recording artist, Todd “Speech” Thomas, from the iconic activist hip-hop group Arrested Development.
As the creative process unfurls, each of these men must unearth painful memories from the past, which hold a key to a new chapter in their lives.
JOIN US FOR A LIVESTREAM CONVERSATION, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 • 5:00 with:
Director Sam Bathrick
Film Subject Speech Thomas of Arrested Development
Film Subject Sarah Scarbrough, director and founder of re-entry program Real Life
Re-entry activist and community leader Lyn Twyman, CEO of LASERS
Moderator Steve Michelson, Executive Director, The Fund for Sustainable Tomorrows
ADMISSION INFO
Stream movie starting Friday, May 22 (VALID FOR 48 HOURS):
$11 – General
$7 – CFI Members
Filmmaker Livestream Q&A on Wednesday, May 27:
Free
Pre-order e-tickets for 16 BARS and register for the livestream Q&A at https://rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/16-bars/
Additional time info:
Livestream Q&A and panel discussion: 5:00 pm
