Putting a human face on the people most affected by incarceration.
Who are the real people shamed and stigmatized by mass incarceration? Faces of Mass Incarceration looks beyond statistics and stereotypes to the prison families whose lives are directly affected by incarceration.
Filmed in Dallas, Texas, the documentary was created to challenge fear, reduce harmful stereotypes, and increase understanding of a population too often misunderstood, maligned, or pushed to the margins.
A film centered on prison families, stigma, stereotypes, and the human impact of mass incarceration.
The Faces of Mass Incarceration documentary asks audiences to look beyond statistics, labels, and fear to see the real people whose lives have been directly affected by incarceration.
At the center of the film are prison families — a population that is often misunderstood, stigmatized, and judged because of the incarceration of someone they love.
By putting faces and lived experiences behind the issue, the documentary challenges harmful stereotypes and unnecessary fears surrounding people who are too often maligned, shunned, or reduced to assumptions about the criminal justice system.
Greater understanding begins when people are no longer treated as statistics or labels.
The project was also designed as an educational and advocacy resource. Together with an accompanying Facilitator’s Guide, the film can support classroom discussion, community conversations, advocacy work, and other settings where audiences are examining incarceration, stigma, families, and social justice.
The film is available for purchase through Connecting 4 Justice International.
Faces of Mass Incarceration was produced by Metamora Films in conjunction with Connecting 4 Justice International .
The project brought together documentary storytelling and advocacy around the human impact of incarceration, with a particular focus on prison families, stigma, and the people too often hidden behind statistics.
Put real faces and lived experiences at the center of the conversation.
Documentary storytelling centered on prison families, stigma, and the human impact of incarceration.
Organizations, nonprofits, educators, advocates, faith communities, and other groups can bring Faces of Mass Incarceration to their own audience through a public or virtual screening.
Metamora Films and Connecting 4 Justice can help facilitate screenings for groups locally or anywhere in the country. The film can be used to open conversation around incarceration, prison families, stigma, stereotypes, and the broader human impact of the criminal justice system.
If you are considering a community event, educational program, advocacy gathering, conference, or online screening, contact Metamora Films to discuss the audience, format, and next steps.
Watch the trailer for Faces of Mass Incarceration and get a closer look at the people, perspectives, and questions at the center of the documentary.
Metamora Films develops documentary and social-impact projects focused on justice, stigma, lived experience, and the people too often reduced to labels instead of seen as human beings.
