The Echoes of Incarceration Project collaborates with Sesame Street:
Echoes of Incarceration – which trains youth with incarcerated parents in filmmaking and advocacy skills, partnered with Sesame Street to create a powerful new film about visiting. It was released this week on the social media site Upworthy. View the video HERE:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=905053386202187&pnref=storyIt has had over 800,000 views and has sparked much conversation about the issue.
To learn more, and help support the Echoes of Incarceration film series, CLICK HERE: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/702874314/echoes-of-incarceration.
To get updates on upcoming films (which they’ve been giving away for free) visit their site and sign up for their newsletter HERE: http://echoesofincarceration.org/
If you know youth who want to share stories or participate in the Echoes project, please contact jeremy@ibisdocs.com
For more information on Sesame Workshop’s Little Children-Big Challenges: Incarceration go to https://sesamestreetincommunities.org/topics/incarceration/