Jessica Earnshaw on Filmmaking that Encourages Empathy
At Home with Linda & Drew Scott
Drew Scott
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We chat with our old friend, documentary photographer and filmmaker, Jessica Earnshaw, whose work focuses on criminal justice, familial relationships and women. Her photography has appeared in National Geographic, The Marshall Project, Mother Jones Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, amongst others.
Jessica tells us how she started in photography and we talk about the importance of telling stories with depth and humanity.
Her first feature film, JACINTA, won the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award at the Tribeca Film Festival 2020. The film has partnered with ABC News and will premiere as a Hulu Original Documentary on @Hulu and in select theaters on October 8th!
Watch the film here:
Jacinta Trailer:
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Social Impact Campaign -- Dignity for Incarcerated Women:
www.thedreamcorps.org/our-programs/justice/campaigns/dignity-for-incarcerated-women/
Connect with Jessica Earnshaw
@Jess_Earnshaw
www.instagram.com/jess_earnshaw/
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| 0:00.0 | If a person who's been in prison for a long time then gets out of prison and they've been treated like an animal or like, you know, or maybe not an animal, but like a not of worth, then how does that person reenter society and feel about themselves and then mirror that back? |
| 0:15.8 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:17.5 | This is Linda and Drew Scott. |
| 0:19.4 | And this is our podcast at home. |
| 0:21.2 | A show where we chat with artists, experts, leaders, dreamers, and doers on the impact that they're creating in the world. |
| 0:26.7 | Through these conversations, we get to dive deeper into our relationships with ourselves, our communities, and our planet. |
| 0:32.5 | In a sense, it's like we're designing our home. |
| 0:34.6 | From The Inside Out. |
| 0:36.2 | This is At Home. |
| 0:37.2 | This is at home. |
| 0:48.3 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:58.5 | Welcome to another episode of At Home with Linda and Drew. It's just me right now. Yep. Drew is probably putting makeup on or something or on the toilet. That's more likely. So I said I would just |
| 1:06.7 | do the recording by myself. But I will keep it short because it feels awkward talking in a room |
| 1:13.4 | by myself. So to everyone who podcasts on their own, you're amazing. I don't know how you do it. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm super excited to introduce our guest today. It's our dear friend Jess Earnshaw. She's a documentary photographer and filmmaker, |
| 1:30.0 | and her work focuses on criminal justice, familial relationships, and women. Her photography has |
| 1:36.2 | appeared in Nat Geo, the Marshall Project, Mother Jones Magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street |
| 1:42.0 | Journal, NPR, and so many others. And today we're going to |
| 1:46.8 | talk a lot about her first feature film, Jacinta, which won the Albert Maisel's new |
| 1:51.7 | documentary director award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2020. Woohoo! And she was recently selected |
| 1:59.6 | for Doc NYC's 40 under 40 list. |
| 2:03.7 | As you all know, on this podcast, we talk about relationships a lot and Jess's work just |
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