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PRESENTS TIME In Select Theaters October 9, 2020 | Worldwide on Amazon Prime Video October 16, 2020 81 mins | English | Rated PG-13 Directed by Garrett Bradley Produced by Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn, Garrett Bradley Amazon One/35 Leanne Hunt Catrice Armstrong [email protected] [email protected] Sara Del Negro Lauren Woulard [email protected] [email protected] Acme PR (LA) Regional Press Nancy Willen Mike Jesson (East Coast) [email protected] [email protected] Emily McDonald Kyle Thorpe (West Coast) [email protected] [email protected] Cinetic (NY) Digital Press Ryan Werner Clay Dollarhide [email protected] [email protected] Layla Hancock Piper Tina Theriot [email protected] [email protected] TIME Logline In this intimate yet epic love story filmed over two decades, indomitable matriarch Fox Rich strives to raise her six sons and keep her family together as she fights for her husband’s release from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola. Short Synopsis Fox Rich is a fighter. The entrepreneur, abolitionist and mother of six boys has spent the last two decades campaigning for the release of her husband, Rob G. Rich, who is serving a 60-year sentence for a robbery they both committed in the early 90s in a moment of desperation. Combining the video diaries Fox has recorded for Rob over the years with intimate glimpses of her present-day life, director Garrett Bradley paints a mesmerizing portrait of the resilience and radical love necessary to prevail over the endless separations of the country’s prison-industrial complex. Long Synopsis In 1997, Fox Rich and Rob G. Rich were newly married high school sweethearts trying to start a business in Shreveport, Louisiana, when a moment of desperation led to a botched bank robbery that landed them both in jail. Fox served three and a half years; Rob was sentenced to 60. When Fox emerged, she dedicated her life to getting her husband out of prison and raising their six boys. A model of strength and perseverance, her mantra is, “Family is everything and everything is family.” Fox has spent the last 21 years filing appeals, making phone calls, giving lectures, and serving as a vocal advocate for other families broken up by incarceration — while also running a business and caring for her children on her own. Through it all, she has documented their family’s life for Rob, creating a home-video archive of all the crucial moments he has missed as a father, footage that also reveals Fox’s remarkable trajectory from a vulnerable young woman to an indomitable matriarch, entrepreneur, and abolitionist. Combining Fox’s video diaries with contemporary glimpses into the family’s everyday routines, including court dates, collect calls, bimonthly visits to Angola and updates from judges and lawyers, director Garrett Bradley charts a life lived with fierce and unrelenting hope. Fox and her sons celebrate holidays, anniversaries and graduations, believing each year that the next one will be with Rob — and they continue, unwaveringly, in the face of disappointment. Time cross-cuts footage from the past and present, framing it with a lyrical voiceover from Fox and her sons to provide a uniquely intimate perspective into the long-term costs of incarceration: the children who grow up without fathers, and the mothers who are forced to become caregivers and legal experts all at once. It also reveals how families sustain themselves on sheer faith to prevail over the endless separations of the prison-industrial complex — a remnant of the legacy of slavery. The film’s gorgeous black-and-white cinematography and symphonic rhythm lend an epic quality to Fox and Rob’s story — a story not just of strife, but also of radical, resilient love. Time is directed by Garrett Bradley (Alone, America) and produced by Lauren Domino (The Earth Is Humming, America), Kellen Quinn (Midnight Family, Brimstone & Glory) and Garrett Bradley. Executive producers are Laurene Powell Jobs (The Price of Free, A Thousand Cuts), Davis Guggenheim (Waiting for ‘Superman,’ An Inconvenient Truth – 2014 Academy Award® winner for Best Feature Documentary), Nicole Stott (Searching for Sugar Man, Restrepo), Rahdi Taylor (Minding the Gap, I Am Not Your Negro) and Kathleen Lingo (Walk Run Cha Cha, 4.1 Miles). Co-executive producers are Jonathan Silberberg (Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, “Iconoclasts”) and Shannon Dill (Inheritance, He Named Me Malala). ABOUT THE PRODUCTION My story is the story of over 2.3 million people in the United States of America who are falling prey to the incarceration of poor people and people of color. — Fox Rich Garrett Bradley’s eye-opening new film, Time, is at once a paean to the power of familial love and a powerful indictment of the American justice system. Seen through the eyes of an extraordinary woman, this deeply personal look at the effects of incarceration on one American family ricochets back and forth in time as it chronicles a romance, a family and an unwavering quest for justice. The film earned Bradley the Best Director award in the US Documentary Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Bradley began exploring the ways women learn to live with their partners’ imprisonment in the award-winning 2017 New York Times Op-Doc Alone. “Making that film was an opportunity to talk about incarceration from a feminist point of view, and specifically a Black feminist point of view,” explains Bradley. “The protagonist, Aloné, had no experience with what it meant to be in a long-term relationship with someone entering the system. My goal was to connect her with women of multiple generations who were at different stages of going through this same experience. I hoped this could be a way of addressing what seemed to be a common feeling of isolation and lack of support.” While looking for women in similar situations, Bradley was introduced to Fox Rich by Gina Womack, executive director and co-founder of Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC). Fox and her husband, Rob G. Rich, (to be referred to together as FoxandRob hereafter) were newly married high school sweethearts trying to start a business in Shreveport, Louisiana. In 1999, Rob was sentenced to 60 years without the possibility of parole in the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary (aka Angola), an almost unheard-of penalty for a bank robbery. Fox, who was the getaway driver, went to prison for three and a half years. When she emerged, she began her campaign to free Rob and expose the racial inequity entrenched in the American justice system. Bradley brought Fox and Aloné together, but ended up using only a small portion of their conversation in the short film. As she learned more about Fox and her ongoing quest, the director conceived of a sister film to Alone, an idea that eventually became her first feature- length documentary, Time. The Times started working with Bradley on Alone in 2017 and shortly thereafter she pitched the idea of making a short documentary on Fox and her family. “When Garrett introduced us to Fox in Alone, she immediately came across as a person who can both speak truth to power and engage audiences. So when Garrett suggested telling the story behind this powerful presence I was immediately intrigued with the idea for Op-Docs. When the project evolved into a longer film it felt like it was always meant to be because the story is so powerful,” says Kathleen Lingo, executive producer of Alone and Time for The New York Times. “Garrett’s preeminent talent is to harness emotion and visual artistry in the service of storytelling. She crafts her films around building intimacy, with her subjects and the audience, and that unique ability is what makes her a visionary. The Times is incredibly honored to be part of this film.” Producer Lauren Domino, who worked with Bradley on both Alone and her 2019 documentary short America, sees this film as a natural follow-up to Alone. “There is a need to showcase the vast experiences of the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated," says Domino. "Fox offers a refreshing view as a mother, abolitionist and champion for her people. She forces you to look beyond the statistics to take on a human perspective.” Bradley says when she began sharing the film she was surprised by some viewers’ reactions to Fox’s powerful persona. “It brought up important questions around Black excellence, and around how both familial and Black feminine strength, when given their full space and support, can challenge what has and has not been granted the right to be rendered on screen,” Bradley says. “The opportunity to have a dialogue with the family’s archive was also an exciting jumping off point for what collaboration can really look like, both from a narrative and aesthetic point of view. It really became a blending of perspectives, which can be complex and rewarding, particularly within the context of documentary filmmaking.” Time is one of the first films from Concordia Studio, founded by Academy Award- winning director Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan King in partnership with Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective. Rahdi Taylor, Concordia’s Executive Vice President of Nonfiction Artists in Residence, suggested that her colleagues consider Bradley for their ambitious fellowship program based on the success of Alone. “It was clear that Garrett is a unique director,” says Taylor, who is also an executive producer of Time. “She combines the visual artistry of fiction filmmaking, the authenticity, intimacy and characterization of nonfictional narrative and the wildly imaginative landscape of the art world. She is a trifecta of a director who celebrates life, and particularly Black life, in a way that is rich and specific.” The executives at Concordia recognized almost immediately that they had found a very special talent in Bradley.

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