Saturday, July 28 | 5:00 PM
Director’s Guild Theater
110 West 57th Street
Synopsis
Odds are that if you go to prison and are lucky enough to get out, you’ll be going back sometime soon. When Julio Medina was incarcerated, he was a drug-dealing gang leader who ought to have died countless times. When he was freed 12 years later, he was a changed man. Upon his release from prison, Julio committed himself to becoming a different kind of leader – helping people live, instead of making people die. He created Exodus Transitional Community, a program in Harlem dedicated to breaking the cycle of incarceration that ensnares so many people of color on the streets of New York. The trick to Exodus is that its staff knows firsthand what it’s like to go to jail. They’re all ex-cons – a badass group of do-gooders who are reaching their clients like no one could who hasn’t walked a mile in a prisoner’s shoes.
Hard Road Home represents the extraordinary amount of energy, resources and strength of character required to improve the fate of just one person born poor on the American streets.
Additional Screening:
Wednesday, July 25
