I am so excited about this second episode of Another Possible World: A Black Girl Watching Podcast! Abolitionist and award-winning filmmaker Richie Reseda has been instrumental in my development as an abolitionist and in using those principles to build a creative life with integrity at the center—even in a business as dirty as Hollywood.
Richie is the producer of the powerful Netflix documentary and visual album Songs from the Hole, which follows a Black man convicted of murder as a teenager who uses music to aid his healing while in prison. Songs from the Hole is up for an NAACP Image Award for Best Breakthrough Creative Film (directed by Contessa Gayles) and you can vote for it here right now and stream the film on Netflix. His first project with Gayles was while he was incarcerated at the infamous Soledad, California prison, starring in her CNN documentary about his work creating a program for incarcerated men to deconstruct patriarchy called “The Feminist on Cellblock Y.”
In this paid-subscriber exclusive podcast, Richie and I talk about how he built his worker-owned production company Question Culture using abolitionist principles, how he filmed two documentaries while incarcerated, how Beyoncé’s Lemonade inspired Songs from the Hole and how moving in integrity allows us to build another possible world through art.
Take a listen. And check out Question Culture’s Healing Plan for people who want to go deeper with the lessons from Songs from the Hole.
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