San Quentin Film Program

The San Quentin Rehabilitation Center Filmmaker Training Program is a collaboration of professional volunteers, the San Quentin administration and the Pollen Initiative designed to provide the residents an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of filmmaking. The program starts with the ethics of journalism and truth telling as the bedrock of authentically chronically life within the carceral system. Residents are then taught the nuts and bolts of equipment and storyboarding before they start pitching their documentary project.