Life After Life (formerly THE TRUST)

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Website

http://www.lifeafterlifemovie.com

Topics

Arts & Culture: Documentary
Health: Narcotics
Human Development: Education, Poverty, Shelter & Housing, Social Exclusion, Urban, Youth
Human Rights: Civil Rights, Race Politics, Social Exclusion
Information & Media: Culture, Knowledge
Peace and Conflict: Conflict Resolution, Peace, United Nations
Politics: Activism, Civil Society, Ethics & Value Systems, Justice and Crime, Law

Project Geography

US: National, California, Hawaii
International: North America

Identity Niches

African American, Caucasian, Latino, Pacific Islander, Women, Youth/Teen

Budget

Raised to date: $202,750.00
Estimate to complete: $215,890.00
Total Estimated Budget: $418,640.00
The budget numbers above are accurate as of 04/01/2011

Status

Post Production

Media Type

Video

Project End Use

Theatrical

Key Personnel

Tamara Perkins
Director and Producer

Tamara Perkins is an independent filmmaker focused on documentaries that inspire dialogue and inform the public and policy makers. Combining creativity, service and activism, Tamara started the film production company Apple of Discord Productions, which showcases the talent of women and minorities through tough yet poignant subjects. She has produced policy-based initiative and instructional DVDs and narrativeand documentary films such as Niroga, a touching look into a program reaching hundreds of incarcerated youththrough Yoga. In 2007, Tamara founded the Wisdom Project and San Quentin Media Project, which continue to train at-risk youth and incarcerated men in filmmaking. Her clients include National Policy trendsetters Van Jones withGreen for All and Junious Williams with Urban Strategies.

Tamara’s background working with children, youth and adults dealing with trauma enabled her transition into working with the men in San Quentin. Tamara had been working with incarcerated men in San Quentin for a year when she was asked to help tell their story. She hasbeen afforded extraordinary access through her trusted relationships with the men featured in Life After Life as well as the Warden and prison staff. 

Jesse Dana
Producer and Cinematographer
Jesse Dana is an Emmy-nominated cinematographer with a decade of narrative and commercial experience. Jesse’s ambition as a Cinematographer has been to use the art of filmmaking to create awareness of the need for social change, specifically around the issues of drug addiction and violence. Jesse has completed countless shorts, music videos and commercials, as well as three feature films, including Stitch in Time with award-winning actor Richard Riehle (Casino, Office Space). Samples of his work can be seen at http://www.jessedana.com.

Diana J Brodie
Editor and Creative Director

Diana J. Brodie has two decades of experience as a film editorincluding 10 years of freelance work on reality shows, corporate videos and featuredocumentaries, as well as editing for networks such as The History Channel,ESPN and National Geographic. 

Outreach/Engagement Plan(s)

Life After Life has developed an outreach plan to achieve the film’s overall goal of spreading awareness and educating the public on the issues related to incarceration and re-entry.

Educational Outreach

We are currently inconversation with Active Voice, through our relationship with PolicyLink, todevelop an educational companion curriculum as a launching pad for a broaderdiscussion around incarceration. Active Voice is a San Francisco based team of communication specialists whose mission is to “put powerful media to work for personal and institutional change in communities, workplaces, and campuses across America.”

An curriculum will be employed for use with student audiences in high schools, colleges, and youth development programs. Educational Outreach will also be facilitated through our relationships with Alameda County Public Health, Alameda County Probation, local school districts, as well as youth development agencies such as Youth Radio, Youth Uprising and The Mentoring Center.

Community Outreach

Community-based presentations, panel discussions, and forums have already begun and will continue in community centers, agency led youth development forums and localevents. We have presented at Berkeley’s One Love People’s Day in People’s Park, as well as, Day of Peace and Silence the Violence events held throughout the Bay Area. The East BayCommunity Foundation also hosted a screening event on October 29, 2008, focused on engaging and rallying the Bay Area Faith community to support the project. Asa direct result, a partnership was forged with St. Vincent De Paul to screen and present the film to their members and community. Similar partnerships havebeen formed with other congregations across the Bay Area, including churches in Oakland and Palo Alto.

A national tour of the filmis being planned in partnership with Urban Strategies and Active Voice that will feature national celebrities and entertainers as well as local andnational community leaders. 

Policy Outreach

Life After Life has developed a partnership with PolicyLink, anOakland based nation-wide research and advocacy organization dedicated to theAmerican nonprofit sector. PolicyLink’s Development Director, JoshKirschenbaum, has become an advocate for the project’s policy goals and willfacilitate further relationships to help move the film and surroundingdiscussion toward the political arena.

Criminal JusticeProfessionals and Advocate Outreach

As important as reachinginmates themselves, we will actively target those working within the prison system,primarily lawyers who write and interpret sentencing and parole/probate laws,judges, and other professionals who interact with inmates.

Corporate Outreach

Google has agreed to holdscreenings and educational talks at their Headquarters in Mountain View fortheir employees. Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) and Yahoo have also offeredto hold screenings and support the film at their headquarters for theiremployees. ILM has also offered to sponsor the film in the LA InternationalFilm Festival.

Online Outreach

Life After Life will employ several social networking sites to drivetraffic to its website and promote the outreach, production and distribution ofthe film. Sites already populated include: Facebook, Linked-in, My Space,Plaxo, YouTube and IndieGoGo. 

www.twitter.com/lifeafter_movie

www.facebook.com/lifeafter.docfilm

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