Impact Filmmaker Show Episode 1: How to Screen Your Film In Prisons

Impact Filmmaker Show

In this episode, you’ll go behind the scenes to learn how to screen your film in prisons from a Chaplain, a film participant, filmmaker, and campaign manager. You'll hear from: Maurice Clifton is a Chaplain with the United States Chaplaincy Corps (USCC), and served twenty three years of incarceration in Federal Prison. Since being home, Maurice served as a Chaplain with the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Maurice is a loving father, husband and champion for his people. Malika Kidd was released from the Ohio Department of Corrections, after serving 14 years for drug trafficking, in 2015. Upon her release she faced many obstacles, from employment to housing because of having a felony record. Because of the barriers she faced reentering society, she wants to make the road easier for those coming behind her than it was for her and her advocacy in higher education, housing discrimination, and employment barriers is doing just that. Lance Kramer is a Washington, DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures. Lance produced THE FIRST STEP (Tribeca, AFI DOCS); CITY OF TREES (Full Frame, PBS, Netflix); and the Webby Award-winning documentary series THE MESSY TRUTH. Lance was selected to the 2018 Sundance Creative Producers Summit, the 2017 Impact Partners Documentary Producers Fellowship, was named to the DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list in 2021, and received the Washington DC Mayor’s Arts Award in 2014, the highest honor given to working artists in the city. Lillie Fleshler is the Films and Series Campaign Manager for Represent Justice, an organization that turns stories into action by building narrative power within system-impacted communities and mobilizing audiences to transform the legal system. Previously, she was an Impact Distribution Manager at Picture Motion where she managed community screening tours for 15 documentary films, including True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality (HBO), Public Trust (Patagonia) and Athlete A (Netflix). She got her start at the intersection of impact and film during her time at the boutique distribution firm, Film Sprout. Your host: Ani Mercedes, Impact Producer and Founder of Looky Looky Pictures (https://www.lookylookypictures.com/), they have served over 1,000 filmmakers, and now serve filmmakers in their Guided Campaign impact accelerator program.