Garrett Bradley, the award-winning director of Time, says her documentary “really stands on the shoulders of a film like 13th.”Ava DuVernay’s 2016 film took a macro view of the issue of mass incarceration, while Time, from Amazon Studios, concentrates on a micro one.
It tells the story of Sibil Fox Richardson, known as Fox Rich, a mother of six who fought for decades for the release of her incarcerated husband.“There’s essentially an invisible population of [2.3 million] people—invisible by design—and…the only evidence of this situation is often time in the families that are also serving time on the outside,” Bradley says during Deadline’s Contenders Documentary awards-season event. “We have the facts; they’re out there.
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