Reel Docs: “Incarcerated Rhythm” [] Teatro Santa Ana at La Biblioteca

Tuesday and Wednesday,
March 10 and 11 at 2PM

80 minutes

Meet Producer Derek Burrows

ABOUT THE FILM:

INCARCERATED RHYTHM follows six men who have been in prison for many years, who join a dance rehabilitation program led by Susan Slotnick that has never been tested before in the prison system. Upon their release, they discover that the “rhythm of freedom” is harder to find than the “rhythm of incarceration.”  The film follows six men – Andre, Ali, Ray, David, Felix, and Casper — during their first few years free after each spent over a decade learning modern dance in a federal prison in New York, the only program of its kind in the US. Now free, they have to navigate old relationships, secure a job, and decide whether to continue dancing or move on.

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ABOUT THE PRODUCER:

DEREK BURROWS is a filmmaker, master storyteller, web designer, and photographer. He is a co-founder of the Mirror of Race Project in Boston.  As a filmmaker, Derek has been working in Mexico on instructional films for health workers. His feature length film, BEFORE THE TREES WAS STRANGE, released in 2016, is a personal story about race and his family, a story about love and foregiveness.

As a storyteller, Derek specializes in Afro-Caribbean and African Diaspora tales; he has been “telling” for over two decades nationally and internationally. Derek’s work as a performer, artist, and digital technician, as well as his life-story as an immigrant to America facing the question of race, provide the inspiration for this project.