Jessica Earnshaw is a documentary filmmaker and photographer, based in Brooklyn, NY.

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(00:00) Moving to NYC for ICP

(02:08) Growing up with a photographer mom

(04:01) Why photojournalism felt empowering

(06:18) Grant: documenting aging in prison

(08:07) Meeting Rosemary and Jacenta

(10:11) Realizing it needed to be film

(12:03) How they landed in prison together

(13:53) Addiction, trauma, and “chasing mom”

(16:02) Getting permission and prison access

(18:14) Filming 2016–2019 with no funding

(20:54) Living broke: motels, burritos, gas

(22:47) Leaving a tour when filming demanded it

(24:46) Men’s prison: long days, earned trust

(27:12) Trauma shaping viol ...