AND WATER BRINGS TOMORROW
A film by Ashley Hunt
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And Water Brings Tomorrow is a feature documentary that looks at closed prisons around the U.S., set against the backdrop of the climate crisis. It follows community organizers behind the decades-long efforts to close prisons and the movement to stop new ones, while offering a unique and poetic reflection on what prisons have been turned into, the loss and reckoning that their repurposing does and doesn’t address.
While the U.S. has resumed investing billions of dollars in the construction of new prisons and increasing its carceral control over communities, And Water Brings Tomorrow glimpses what the long struggle has looked like — a reminder in a time of despair of how we can think beyond the present crisis, and how we make a different tomorrow.
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 follows the Close California Prisons Campaign, an interfaith pilgrimage to witness immigrant detention centers, and a campaign to halt a new prison in Appalachian coal country. Woven between site studies of prisons turned museums, tourism hubs and anonymous ruins, this hybrid documentary asks what is reckoned with or erased in each prison’s repurposing, in communities, and within the landscape.
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OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN gave us a good start to funding a grassroots tour of And Water Brings Tomorrow, taking it to community organizations working toward prison closure and decarceration around the U.S. Your additional support will allow us to bring capacity to community organizations and pay our small but mighty team for their hard work!
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.