AND WATER BRINGS TOMORROW

Film by Ashley Hunt, coming 2025

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And Water Brings Tomorrow is a film about change that looks at closed prisons around the U.S., considering what they’ve turned into, the community efforts behind their closure, and the forms of loss and reckoning that their closure does and does not address. 

The third in a film cycle on today’s abolition movement through the lens of closing prisons, including Ashes Ashes (2020) and Double Time (2022), And Water Brings Tomorrow tells this story against the backdrop of climate forces that are changing our world.

It follows the Close California Prisons Campaign of the CURB coalition (Californians United for a Responsible Budget), an interfaith pilgrimage to close immigrant detention centers in the Southwest, and an effort to halt the building of a new prison in Appalachian coal country. Juxtaposed with portraits of prisons that have become museums, restorative justice centers, tourism hubs and anonymous ruins, the film is woven together with a poetic narration on what is reckoned with or erased in each prison’s repurposing.

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We have 45 days left to fund a grassroots tour of the And Water Brings Tomorrow, taking it to community organizations working toward prison closure and decarceration around the U.S. Your support will allow us to bring capacity to organizers and pay our small but mighty team for their hard work!

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And Water Brings Tomorrow is funded in part by the Art for Justice Fund of the Ford Foundation, and the Visualizing Abolition platform of UC Santa Cruz’ Institute for Arts and Science.