And So I Stayed
This film is made for and by survivors. For them/us to feel heard, seen, and believed.
- Crime
- Documentary
Overview
AND SO I STAYED is an award-winning documentary about survivors of abuse fighting for their lives and spending years behind bars. These women paid a steep price with long prison sentences, lost time with loved ones, and painful memories. Formerly incarcerated survivor-advocate Kim Dadou Brown, who met her wife while incarcerated, is a driving force in the passage of New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA), a new law meant to prevent survivors from receiving harsh prison sentences for their acts of survival. Nikki Addimando, a mother of two young children, suffered the consequences when a judge didn’t follow the law’s guidelines. Tanisha Davis, a single mother who was ripped away from her son in 2013, is hopeful the new law is her way out of a harsh prison sentence.
Keywords
- domestic violence
- domestic abuse
- judicial system
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 12, 2021
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Production
- Grit Pictures,Q&A Films,Moxie Creative
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site