AND WATER BRINGS TOMORROW

Film by Ashley Hunt, coming Fall 2024

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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 changing our very 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.

FILM TRAILER

With a release date planned for Fall 2024, we are raising money to fund a grassroots tour of the film for community organizations dealing with prison closures around the U.S. Please consider contributing something to this campaign if you can by clicking here.

If you or someone in your community would be interested in hosting a community screening of the film, please click here to contact us. 

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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.