Metamora Films: Transforming Hearts and Minds through Film

We are changing MetamoraTV’s focus.  Over the last two years we’ve mainly covered celebrity charity events including the 2016 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.  Though this has been informative and exciting, we feel that our online TV podcast will be more beneficial by covering one of America’s biggest embarrassment:  The Criminal Justice System.  ‘ Solitary Nation ‘, hosted by Matt Duhamel , will officially launch September 20th, 2016 with interviews from professionals, organization leaders, dignitaries and everyday people.  Topics will include:  the prison system, probation/parole, sex offender registration, the affects of incarceration on children and families, and much more.  (Note: Metamora Films will continue producing documentaries and short films with our latest project, NOT FOR RENT! planned for an April, 2017 release.) If you or someone that you know is interested in being on the show, please contact us .  Int...

Jail is a scary place.  I know, I’ve been there (luckily only 5 days, but it was hell because of my charges!)  The general public often does not know the differences between jail and prison.  According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics ,  jails are locally-operated, short term facilities that hold inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both, and inmates sentenced to a term of less than 1 year, typically misdemeanors. Prisons are long term facilities run by the state or the federal government and typically hold felons and inmates with sentences of more than 1 year.  This means that in local jails, there’s a HUGE mixture of inmates with a wide variety of low and high level offenses all together in the same pod!  For example, to the left of you is an inmate with twenty-five unpaid parking tickets; to the right is an inmate with armed-robbery charges.  I think of Tom Hanks famous line in the film, Forest Gump , “Mama always said life was li...