Redemption Time

2025 • 1h 10m • Music

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About the film

*Special Livestream Event on June 16th! Early Bird Pricing Available Until June 7th*

Redemption Time is a 70-minute performance film featuring poet Jimmy Santiago Baca and jazz violinist Christian Howes––two formerly incarcerated artists who reclaimed their lives through art. While imprisoned, Howes discovered Baca's poetry, igniting a creative lifeline that would sustain them both. Through spoken word, jazz, and intimate testimony, the film reveals the trauma of incarceration and art's redemptive power. Directed by David Gonzalez, Redemption Time is an emotional journey and a call to reimagine justice, identity, and human potential.

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Director

David Gonzalez

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What people are saying

“Through a profound experience of solidarity in suffering and unlikely friendship, Redemption Time transcends many of the dualisms so cherished by a culture nourished by antagonisms—Black/white, Anglo/Latino, wealth/poverty, urban/rural, word/image, east/west, solo/ensemble, innocent/guilty. It is an immensely powerful and important work of visual, poetic, and musical storytelling singed at its core by an encounter with the deepest mysteries of our shared humanity. Redemption Time is a unique and deeply moving act of approach towards human communion, and revelatory of the ways that deep and painful truthfulness can yield profound joy.”

Peter Candler - Ph.D., Author and former Professor of Theology

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