AND WATER BRINGS TOMORROW
A film by Ashley Hunt
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Grassroots Tour
Shannon Andrea Thomas, AK, Amber-Rose Howard,
Ipyani Lockert, Ashley Hunt, Silvi Naçi at UC Irvine
Nicole Porter, with Coalition to Decarcerate Illinois, Chicago
TOUR SCHEDULE
Upcoming
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Date: October 6, 2025
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Studio Two Three
More Info: Inthrive Film Festival 2025-2026 Season Opening Celebration, October 3-6, 2025. Festival website: https://inthrivefilmfestival.org/.
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Date: October 9th
Time: 1-2:30 pm
Location: Brown University
More Info: Please contact us for more info.
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Date: October 9, 2025
Time: 7pm
Location: Dartmouth College
More Info: Kinship, Abolition, Freedom: International Association of Visual Arts Conference Schedule
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Date: October 10, 2025
Time: 6pm-8:30pm
Location: Main Street Landing Film House: The Green Room and Atrium (Third Floor)
More Info: The event And Water Brings Tomorrow - Film Screening and Discussion is organized by FreeHer VT and the Peace & Justice Center.
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Date: October 10, 2025
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Pluck Farm Brewery
More Info: Organized by NC Climate Justice Collective, West End Revitalization Assoc., and Benevolence Farm.
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Date: October 13, 2024
Time: 5:00-8:00pm
Location: The New Parkway Theater
More Information: A free work-in-progress preview of And Water Brings Tomorrow hosted by Critical Resistance and CURB.
Filmmaker Ashley Hunt has been working with Critical Resistance (CR) for over two decades, seeing CR and CURB’s powerful organizing lay the groundwork for the prison closures and decarceration that And Water Brings Tomorrow highlights.
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Date: November 12, 2024
Time: 4:30-7:30pm
Location: Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California
More Information: Filmmaker and Artist Ashley Hunt has been dedicating his work to the struggle against mass incarceration for over two decades, workin the organizations who have laid the groundwork for the prison closures and decarceration that And Water Bring Tomorrow highlights.
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Date: January 15, 2025
Time: 5:00pm pt / 8:00pm ET
Location: Zoom
More Information: Join our partners ACLU SoCal for their next Decarceral Visions webinar, introducing the new documentary, And Water Brings Tomorrow, where filmmaker, Ashley Hunt will share excerpts and join in dialogue with Speakers from the campaigns featured in the film!
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Date: Saturday, April 19th, 2025
Time: 2–5:30pm
Location: Hanes Art Center, rm 218
Kicking off our Grassroots Screening Tour in Chapel Hill, sponsored by the Community Justice and Abolition Collective, including a panel and conversation with members of local organizations, BenevolenceFarm and the Children’s Place.
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Date: April 26, 2025
Time: 3:00pm
Location: California Museum of Photography, the Culver Cinema at UC Riverside
Reserve Tickets: https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/films/and-water-brings-tomorrow/
More Information: This screening is supported by UC Riverside’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (CHASS) Dean’s Office and the Center for Ideas and Society. Additional support is provided by the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Dance, and the Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity at UC Riverside.
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Date: May 27, 2025
Time: 5:00p.m. - 8:30p.m.
Location: Humanities Gateway, Room 1070 (McCormick Screening Room)
More Info: The third film by Ashley Hunt, in which he explores today’s abolition movement through the lens of closed and closing prisons. Following campaigns to shrink prison systems, this film tells its story against the backdrop of climate forces that are changing our world.
Can our discussion of the film serve as a catalyst for mobilization—helping us co-imagine what revolution feels like and how it might expand beyond our immediate circles?
Discussion following the screening with:
Ashley Hunt, Artist-Activist & Prison Abolitionist
Amber-Rose Howard, Executive Director, California United for a Responsible Budget
AK, Trauma Healing and Restorative Justice Circle for Incarcerated Women with ReEvolution
Ipyani Lockert, Faith Organizer for Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Shannon Andrea Thomas, Transformative Justice Practitioner and Conflict Mediator-----
Contact: Teresa Neighbor, tneighbo@uci.edu
Sponsor: Department of Global and International Studies, and co-sponsored by Global Race Research Lab, Interdisciplinary Scholars Association, C-Lab, WUICAN, DECADE, and the Center for Racial Justice
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Date: Thursday May 8, 2025
Time: 6–9pm
Location: Denver Justice and Peace Committee and Shut Down GEO Aurora
More Info: Followed by panel with filmmaker, Ashley Hunt, Ipyani Lockert of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, and members of Colorado Trans Immigrant Fund, the Immigrant Freedom Fund, and AFSC of Colorado
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Date: July 10, 2025
Time: 6–8pm CT
Location: Walls Turned Sideways
More Info: Organized by the Coalition to Decarcerate Illinois and the Sentencing Project, the screening is followed by a panel discussion with Nicole Porter of the Sentencing Project and local organizers
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Date: July 12, 2025
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Rogue Action Center, 205 N Phoenix Rd Suite 255, Phoenix, OR 97535
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Date: July 13th, 2025
Time: 6:30–9pm
Location: The PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater
Sponsored by Critical Resistance PDX and the Partnership for Safety and Justice
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Date: September 11, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois Chicago
More Info: And Water Brings Tomorrow: A Film Screening and Informal Discussion
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Date: September 12, 2025
Time: 6pm
Location: Holiday Inn Little Rock Presidential - Downtown Little Rock, AR
More Info: DecARcerate Conference 2025, Little Rock, AR
Past
FILM TRAILER
SCREENING CAMPAIGN & PRODUCTION
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.
