How objective can the camera be? Using the cinéma vérité technique, filmmakers from Iran, France, Oakland, and Serbia take a fly-on-the-wall approach to life unfolding in front of them. Featuring the short films THE YEAR OF THE ROBOT, SHADEGAN, HUNTSVILLE STATION, and THEN COMES THE EVENING.
Runtime: 88 minutes
Every weekday, dozens of inmates are released on parole from Huntsville State Penitentiary, the largest prison release center in Texas. With a bus ticket voucher and $100 release check, most of them take in their first moments out with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block. In this pivotal moment, between incarceration and freedom, a myriad of complicated emotions arise before the bus arrives to take them home.
- Year2020
- Runtime14 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUSA
- PremiereLouisiana
- NoteEnglish subtitles
- DirectorJamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone
- ProducerJamie Meltzer
- CinematographerChris Filippone
- EditorChris Filippone, Jamie Meltzer
How objective can the camera be? Using the cinéma vérité technique, filmmakers from Iran, France, Oakland, and Serbia take a fly-on-the-wall approach to life unfolding in front of them. Featuring the short films THE YEAR OF THE ROBOT, SHADEGAN, HUNTSVILLE STATION, and THEN COMES THE EVENING.
Runtime: 88 minutes
Every weekday, dozens of inmates are released on parole from Huntsville State Penitentiary, the largest prison release center in Texas. With a bus ticket voucher and $100 release check, most of them take in their first moments out with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block. In this pivotal moment, between incarceration and freedom, a myriad of complicated emotions arise before the bus arrives to take them home.
- Year2020
- Runtime14 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUSA
- PremiereLouisiana
- NoteEnglish subtitles
- DirectorJamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone
- ProducerJamie Meltzer
- CinematographerChris Filippone
- EditorChris Filippone, Jamie Meltzer