Film Screening with Echoes of Incarceration
6 – 7:30PM
Join the filmmakers of Echoes of Incarceration for an evening of youth-produced films exploring the impact of mass incarceration on young people. Since 2009, Echoes has trained teens and young adults directly impacted by the criminal legal system in filmmaking and advocacy, creating documentaries and video journalism in partnership with organizations including Sesame Street, Upworthy, and NowThis News, with screenings at the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice.
This program will feature recent work focused on restorative practices, Emerging Adult Justice, and a new series examining how communities can build safety beyond traditional policing. A conversation with the filmmakers will follow the screening.
Echoes of Incarceration is an award-winning documentary initiative produced by youth who are directly impacted by the criminal justice system. The project provides hands-on video production and advocacy training for young adults, creating documentaries and video journalism pieces told from the life experiences of the filmmakers themselves. Echoes provides hands-on film training to youth ages 16 to 23 and creates films for criminal justice stakeholders about the needs of young people. The project also produces general-audience documentaries and video journalism about the intersection of the criminal justice system and youth. Echoes has created films for Sesame Street, Upworthy, and NowThis News, screened work at the White House in 2014, and was named a Robert Rauschenberg Artist-As-Activist Fellow in 2017. Its stated goal is to explore all the ways the criminal justice system interacts with, and misunderstands, young people, while harnessing the intelligence, energy, and creativity of youth to rethink understandings of crime and punishment.
Running from April 4 through June 28, 2026, The Warehouse is a collaboration between artist and writer Vic Liu, abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, and the Bedford branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. The project features more than two dozen new, full-scale paintings by Liu that cover the library’s walls, transforming the public space into an immersive exploration of resistance, survival, and possibility.