Since 2013, small groups of University of Richmond students and young people incarcerated in Virginia’s Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center have come together to share life stories in a months-long program. Due to privacy constraints, communication beyond the program is prohibited and filming inside the jail is not permitted. In A FLOWER IN A DARK PLACE, audio recordings emerging from the last one-hour conversations of four partner-pairs are overlaid with poetic visuals, imagining incarcerated youth in landscapes of freedom.

Doc Short | 2019 | Director, Cinematographer, Editor

Official Selection: Richmond International Film Festival, Docs Without Borders Film Festival, Social Political Film Festival, NeXt Doc's Decarceration Film Festival.