Be challenged. Get inspired. Move your project forward leaps and bounds.  Join a select group of emerging filmmakers to think through every aspect of your work-in-progress in this tightly structured program.

Cop shows, prison films, and true crime docs have a long history of glorifying the criminal justice system, naturalizing its inherent violence, and narrowing the imaginative possibilities for abolition. 

In a new iteration of our Collaborative Studio, co-designed with esteemed experimental filmmaker Christopher Harris, we invite a collective to examine, contextualize and dismantle scripts of the carceral state from the archives of popular culture.