Synopsis:
I wasn’t a bad kid. I just made bad decisions.
- Director:
- Molly Schwartz, Elyse Kelly
- Year:
- 2017
- Country:
- United States
- Running time:
- 2 min.
- Technique:
- Hand-drawn Animation, Mixed media, Stop Motion Animation
- Original title:
- Jason's Sentence
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producers:
- ACLU, Holly Stone
- Animators:
- Molly Schwartz, Elise Simard
- Script writers:
- Jason Hernandez, Molly Schwartz
- Music composers:
- Molly Schwartz, Brooke Blair, Will Blair
- Sound designer:
- Molly Schwartz
- Editors:
- Molly Schwartz, Dan Fipphen, Elyse Kelly
- Productions:
- ACLU, ACME Filmworks
- Distributions:
- ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union
- Genres:
- Drama, Documentary, Tragedy
- Tags:
- Political, Activism, Mental health, Trauma, Identity, Sad, Hope, Poetic, Transformation
- Audience:
- 16+
- Festival selections:
- Sundance Film Festival, Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
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