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Documentary Description Female juvenile offenders have the fastest growing rates of incarceration;
yet, media access to their stories is extremely limited because
they are minors. However, Governor Rod Blagojevich, of Illinois,
has granted Academy Award® nominated and national Emmy award-winning
filmmaker Tod Lending (Nomadic Pictures) unprecedented access
to a female juvenile detention center (prison) in Illinois in
order to tell this story. In this provocative and very personal
feature documentary, AIMEE’S CROSSING, Lending will focus
on Aimee Myers, and her family, through her first year of incarceration
and a year after her release. Lending will film her therapy sessions
and examine how the juvenile justice system contends with her
history of domestic and sexual abuse, substance abuse, and mental
health issues (she is diagnosed as bi-polar). After Aimee’s
release, the film will examine what support she requires from
her family, the justice system, and her community in order to
change her negative behaviors and become a productive citizen. |
