Wren Rene

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support "The Command Center to Bring Women Home" as the film engages audiences in re-imagining what re-entry could look like if it was designed by formerly incarcerated women.

The 2020 film grant will support "Life Beyond Life," a collaborative short hybrid film about women's re-entry experiences. After successfully fighting to have their juvenile life sentences cut short, four women in Philadelphia use a collaborative film process to visualize their experiences, struggles, and dreams as they face a new world upon re-entry. Each woman was sentenced to life in prison as juveniles and collectively they served over 140 years. Life Beyond Life will be an intimate conversation between resilient, hopeful women who have much to share with their sisters still incarcerated and the outside world.