Space to Breathe is an abolitionist science fiction hybrid documentary. The film is set in a future where there are no prisons or police, looking back at how today's movements built that future.
Jordan Flaherty is an award-winning journalist, producer, and author. He has produced dozens of hours of film and television for Al Jazeera, The Laura Flanders Show, and other outlets, and is currently producing the documentary Powerlands, with Navajo filmmaker Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso. His work in fiction filmmaking includes producing the independent feature film Chocolate Babies (Best Feature, SXSW and New Fest NYC; Official Selection, Berlin Film Festival; distributed internationally by Frameline Films).
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Kate Trumbull-LaValle is an award-winning independent documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. Kate directed Ovarian Psycos (2016), a film that explores the origins of a hybrid Latinx bicycle brigade in East LA, which premiered at SXSW 2016 and on Independent Lens in 2017. In 2018, Kate directed Artist and Mother, an exploration of the 'maternal' in contemporary art, as well as City Rising: The Informal Economy, which tells the story of informal workers "pushed off the books" but fighting for change. Both films were nominated for an LA Area Emmy and won two LA Press Awards. Most recently Kate co-produced two of five episodes for the groundbreaking PBS film series, Asian Americans (2020). Kate currently teaches documentary at California State University, Long Beach and is in development on several new projects.
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Walidah Imarisha is an educator and a writer. She is the co-editor of two anthologies including Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements. Imarisha is also the author of Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison and Redemption, which won a 2017 Oregon Book Award. She spent 6 years with Oregon Humanities’ Conversation Project as a public scholar facilitating programs across the state about Oregon Black history and other topics. In 2015, she received a Tiptree Fellowship for her science fiction writing. Imarisha currently teaches in Portland State University’s Black Studies Department as is the Director of the Center for Black Studies. In the past, she has taught at Stanford University, Oregon State University, and Pacific Northwest College of the Arts.
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Juicebox P. Burton, is a community taught cinematographer who resides in New Orleans, their art practice is a protective response to ancestral trauma and integration. Growing up a Black, gnc, trans person, they often felt like the villain in the movie. Villains are the weird, the outcasts and the misunderstood. They harness the things that ostracize them and turn them into power. I wanted to tell stories about the“villians” I identified with. So with no formal training, Juicebox picked up a camera. Juicebox’s life's work starts with intention, making work that represents the power, beauty and pain of ancestry is strongest when made alongside people who relate to its message. They are committed to uplifting black trans, gnc and queer folks through a collaborative and cooperative nature that empowers them on their journey toward economic autonomy, skill building and harnessing their artistic power.
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