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Pull of gravity / directed by El Sawyer & Jon Kaufman ; [produced by Media in Neighborhoods Group].
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ex-convicts--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Ex-convicts.
- Inner cities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Inner cities.
- Ex-convicts--Social networks--United States.
- Prisoners--Deinstitutionalization--United States.
- Prisoners.
- Recidivism--United States.
- Recidivism.
- Urban poor--United States.
- Urban poor.
- Prisoners--Deinstitutionalization.
- Social networks.
- United States.
- Drug abuse and crime--United States.
- Drug abuse and crime.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : Media in Neighborhoods Group, LLC, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Chiefly in English, portions in Spanish with English subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
- Summary:
- "North Philadelphia, PA -- Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000 prisoners released into society every year, they find themselves faced with a chilling outlook: 67% of ex-offenders re-offend within three years. What explains this invisible force that keeps former inmates in a seemingly unending cycle of incarceration? Pull of Gravity is an intimate portrait of these three men that confronts head--on the gritty details of lives cut short by poverty and drugs, where dealing is seen as the only route to economic prosperity, where using offers an escape from powerlessness, and where prison is too often the next stop. The film's unfiltered lens captures its subjects as they lay bare their stories, fears, and tentative dreams."--Container.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Three men
- Growing up
- Jail
- Coming home
- The pull of gravity
- The streets.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Jon Kaufman ; editors, Derrick Toler, Jon Kaufman, El Sawyer ; creative producer, Seven Halsema ; music, Jesse Koolhaas.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2013.
- DVD version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- OCLC:
- 923015865
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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