Official Trailer for ‘The 50’ Doc About Prisoners Changing into Counselors
by Alex Billington
April 5, 2024
Supply: YouTube
“Use that vitality to do what it’s worthwhile to do for our group.” LvL Movie has revealed an official trailer for a documentary movie titled The 50, made by filmmaker Brenton Gieser as his first characteristic movie. Whereas serving life sentences in a dangerously overcrowded and drug-saturated jail system, 50 males embark on a radical journey to turn into a number of the first incarcerated Substance Abuse Counselors. 85% of the jail inhabitants has an lively substance use dysfunction or had been incarcerated for a criminal offense involving medicine or drug use – which is why this story and this program is so essential. That is being launched throughout “Second Probability Month”, a nationwide effort to boost consciousness of the collateral penalties of a prison conviction, and unlock second-chance alternatives for individuals who have accomplished their sentences to turn into contributing residents. The doc premiered on the 2022 DOC NYC Movie Competition, and it is going to be obtainable to observe on VOD subsequent week. Appears extremely highly effective and galvanizing, a uncommon take a look at actual optimism and precise optimistic change.
This is the official trailer (+ poster) for Brenton Gieser’s doc movie The 50, direct from YouTube:
Whereas serving life sentences in a dangerously overcrowded and drug-saturated jail system, 50 males embark on a radical journey to turn into a number of the first incarcerated Substance Abuse Counselors within the nation. The 50 is a robust examine on trauma and restore, a common take a look at the lengthy and winding street to heal, and an exploration into how probably the most discounted amongst us constructed probably the most highly effective fashions of rehabilitation now we have. The 50 is a documentary movie directed by the Korean-American indie filmmaker Brenton Gieser, making his characteristic directorial debut after a number of different brief movies beforehand. Produced by Traci Lewis, Brenton Gieser, Estevan Padilla, Audrey Gloeckner-Kalousek, and Colette Kessler. This initially premiered on the 2022 DOC NYC Movie Competition, and it additionally performed on the 2023 Santa Barbara Movie Competition. LvL Movies will debut Gieser’s The 50 doc in choose US theaters + on VOD beginning on April ninth, 2024 this spring. April can be “Second Probability Month” within the US. For more information on the doc, go to the movie’s official website.
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