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Join Shine Global, Director Denali Tiller, Film Subject Maison, Family Incarceration Expert Elizabeth Gaynes, and Moderator Susan MacLaury for a virtual screening of Tre Maison Dasan and a live panel discussion. Watch the film anytime before the panel discussion from the comfort of your own home.

LIVE Panel Discussion
Thursday, August 6th
8pmEST/5pmPST
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ABOUT THE FILM

Tre Maison Dasan is an intimate portrait of three boys growing up, each with a parent in prison. Told directly through the child’s perspective, the film is an exploration of relationships and separation, masculinity, and coming of age in America when a parent is behind bars.

One out of every fourteen children in the U.S. has a parent who is currently or has previously been incarcerated. In other words, a staggering 7% of our nation’s youth— an estimated 5 million children—have experienced the incarceration of a parent at one point in their lives. 1 in 9 Black children (11.4%), 1 in 28 Hispanic children (3.5%) and 1 in 57 White children (1.8%) have an incarcerated parent. Black children are twice as likely as White children to experience parental incarceration.

Running Time: 1 hour 34 minutes | Rating: Ages 10 and up

“Potent, sometimes wrenchingly intimate… This feature directorial debut is an excellent nonfiction drama” —VARIETY MAGAZINE

“Gripping… This picture opens our eyes to a social disruption that has been underexposed and that we all ignore at our peril” — THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Denali Tiller – Director & Producer

Denali Tiller is a filmmaker based in Queens, NY. She is best known for her work directing and producing Tre Maison Dasan, a collaborative, award-winning feature length documentary about three boys who have parents in prison. Tre Maison Dasan screened at festivals around the world and premiered on PBS’ Independent Lens in April, 2019. Tied to a comprehensive engagement campaign, the film also reached incarcerated audiences around the world, and culminated in a #NationalVisitingDays campaign that organized shared screenings between incarcerated parents and their children. In 2015, Denali was named one of 110 “Filmmakers to Watch” by Variety Magazine. She has associate-produced short content in Uganda, Ghana and Tanzania with the US Agency for International Development, and has taught at Alvarez High School and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.

Maison Texeira – Featured in Film

Maison Texeira is 15 years old and attends Bishop Hendricken High School in Rhode Island. He is an artist and musician, and loves to draw both cartoons and realism, and is learning how to DJ. You can see more of his work at https://www.deviantart.com/ghoulhive/gallery.

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Elizabeth Gaynes – President and CEO of the Osborne Association

Elizabeth Gaynes is President/CEO of the Osborne Association, a NY nonprofit criminal justice organization. During her 35-year tenure, the 85+ year old nonprofit rebounded from a two-person office to one of the country’s largest and most effective organizations seeking to transform the justice system. Osborne serves 12,000 individuals a year in 5 community sites, 30 state prisons and 7 NYC jails, with programs that include family, educational, workforce development and treatment services. In 1986, when her children’s father went to prison, Liz established FamilyWorks, the first comprehensive fatherhood program in a men’s state prison. Liz was recognized as an (Obama) White House Champion of Change for Children of Incarcerated Parents, serves on the NYS Council on Community Reentry and Reintegration, and the NYC Mayor’s Justice Implementation Task Force. She received her BA and JD from Syracuse University, and began her career in the aftermath of the 1971 Attica Rebellion as a criminal defense and prisoners’ rights lawyer.