Filmmakers Tommy Oliver and Garrett Bradley each looked at the country's prison industrial complex through the intimate lens of families affected by decades of incarceration.
The Bradley-directed Time (Amazon Prime Video) follows Fox Rich as she fights for the release of her husband, Rob, while he serves a 60-year sentence for a bank robbery.
Oliver's 40 Years a Prisoner (HBO) chronicles the 1978 raid on the Philadelphia-based radical back-to-the-land movement MOVE and focuses on Mike Africa Jr., whose father and then-pregnant mother were arrested in the raid, and his attempt to exonerate his parents.
In a December conversation over Zoom, Oliver and Bradley talked about the most difficult aspects of making their films — from parsing.
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