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Carrying the weight of motherhood, trauma, and incarceration, two women find healing and hope through sisterhood, service, and education.
Synopsis
Separated by decades and starkly different circumstances two women rebound from incarceration. They each overcome their years of addiction and abuse to pursue the promise of higher education. These aspiring scholars navigate parole, raising young children, and self-healing to find acceptance, sisterhood, and hope for a new life.
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RECENT ENGAGEMENTS
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CREATIVE TEAM
Tamara Perkins (Director | Producer) is an award-winning filmmaker and changemaker focused on documentaries that inspire transformative change through dialogue, healing and advocacy. Pulling from her work in restorative justice as a grief support facilitator, speaker and nonprofit director, she founded Apple of Discord Productions in 2006. Connecting media, activism and healing, she developed programs such as the Wisdom Project and San Quentin Media Project, which trained at-risk youth and incarcerated men in filmmaking as a tool for transformation.
Tamara’s film Life After Life (2018) began in her yoga class inside San Quentin State Prison when the men asked her to tell their story, and continues to be a catalyst for learning and advocacy nationally. As a crime survivor and justice impacted family member, this film is both especially meaningful and provides an often overlooked proximity to storytelling. Her upcoming films, Clarissa’s Battle and Rebound, were each similarly inspired by a personal connection to the subject matter. Delving into screenwriting, her recent script melds present day social, moral, and ethical questions with a Woman-driven SciFi Thriller. As a national speaker, Tamara’s repertoire spans from filmmaking to prison issues and human rights. Notable partners include ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, Stanford Law and the Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law. She is a recipient of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Award. Tamara received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is an adjunct faculty at St. Mary’s College of California and Skyline College.
Jason Ritchie (Co-Director | Producer | Cinematographer) is a storyteller driven by the impact that media had on his own life. With only a pen and paper to work with in prison, Ritchie delved into the written word and illustration for telling his stories. Within weeks of paroling from prison in 2017 he picked up a camera and has been filming everything he can ever since. “I put down the 9mm and picked up the 35.” “I’ve spent almost two decades waiting to get out and make my stories come to life.” Directly impacted by the criminal justice system, Ritchie is working to use his talents in film and storytelling to bring positive change in his community, and immersing himself in the creative process through his studies at San Diego State University and his work for a media house. Ritchie broke out on his own, creating mini-docs about how education and community support building meaningful paths and purpose to life.
Megan Hearst (Co-Producer | Assistant Editor | Fundraising Pilot Editor)
Post Production Services by
Line Producers and Production Managers
Melvin Parker
Hector Ramos
Editor
Benjamin Huerta
Color and Sound Design
Miguel Espinoza
Cinematographers
Eric Zentmyer
Alex Farnsley
John LaCuesta
Melvin Parker
Miguel Espinoza
Additional Camera Operators
Rook Stockhoff
Production Assistants
Rook Stockhoff
Jody Dang
Featured in the Film
Project Rebound Students
Laura Murray
Isabella Quevedo
D’Andre Brooks
Jason Ritchie
Francesca Aguirre
April Svec
Sarah Norris
Robert Johnston
Christian DeAnda
Samantha Arpallan
Moisers Garcia-Perez
Project Rebound Staff
Daniel Stacy, Ph.D.
Raquel Funches, M.A.
Special Thanks
Project Rebound
KPBS Explore
San Diego State University
Los Colinas Detention & Reentry Facility
Dr. Daniel Stacy
Dr. Alan Mobley
John Decker
Jill Linder
Jodi Cilley
Melanie Drogseth
Jeanine Rodgers
Sherry Ryan, Ph.D.
Ann Johns, Ph.D.
Jason Bell
Chris Boyd
Oli Aramburu
Maya Perkins
With appreciation to Daniel Stacy, Ph.D., who invited Tamara Perkins to meet Jason Ritchie and the incredible women of Project Rebound.