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And Water Brings Tomorrow

Stories from today’s movement to close prisons, re-imagining what they and our future can become.

And Water Brings Tomorrow – Grassroots screening tour for a feature-length documentary

Looking at closed prisons, what they’re turned into, and the campaigns closing them. Grief, loss and reckoning in a changing world.

 United States
  • $1,846 raised of $25,000 goal
  • 20 donations
  • 45 days left
This is a Fiscally-Sponsored Project

Fiscally Sponsored by Fractured Atlas

The third in a film cycle on today’s abolition movement through the lens of closing prisons, including Ashes Ashes (2020) and Double Time (2022), And Water Brings Tomorrow (2025) tells this story against the backdrop of climate forces changing our very world. It follows the Close California Prisons Campaign of the CURB coalition (Californians United for a Responsible Budget), an interfaith pilgrimage to close immigrant detention centers in the Southwest, and an effort to halt the building of a new prison in Appalachian coal country.

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Juxtaposed with portraits of prisons that have become museums, restorative justice centers, tourism hubs and anonymous ruins, the film is woven together with a poetic narration on what is reckoned with or erased in each prison’s repurposing.

Slated for release in 2025, we are raising money to fund a grassroots tour of the film for community organizations dealing with prison closures around the U.S. 

If you are able, please consider contributing to this campaign by choosing one of the rewards.


Visit www.andwaterbringstomorrow.com for more information and subscribe for updates. Hope you can join our grassroots tour of the film!


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With your support of $25,000, we will be able to host

  • 5 long-distance screenings where Ashley will be able to attend in-person;
  • 3 guest speakers that have been crucial to this project, and to cover their travel expenses;
  • 5 screenings in Southern California;
  • and 5 virtual screenings.

Our stretch goal is $40,000. The more support we receive, the more places our screening tour will go, and the more folks will be able to see the film!

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Rewards

Thank You!

Donate $25.00 or more

Amount is fully tax-deductible.

Thank you for your support of the screening tour! 

Film's Digital Link

Donate $50.00 or more

Amount is fully tax-deductible.

You will receive a permanent link to the finished film for private or educational use, or within grassroots organizations. Thank you for your support!

Newspaper Bundle

Donate $100.00 or more

Amount is fully tax-deductible.

We will mail you Ashley Hunt's new newspaper for this film, which features still photography of the film's sites and the film's central narration, along with a selection of his previous newspapers. You will also receive a link to the finished film.

Waterfall Socks

Donate $200.00 or more

Amount over $10.00 is tax-deductible.

You will receive a pair of custom-designed socks, featuring one of the film’s waterfalls and its title as a slogan, along with all the above-mentioned rewards.

Limited Edition Print from the Film

Donate $500.00 or more

Amount over $50.00 is tax-deductible.

You will receive a 12x16 archival pigment print, signed by Ashley Hunt, along with all the above-mentioned rewards.

Supporter

Donate $1,000.00 or more

Amount over $50.00 is tax-deductible.

You will be thanked and credited as an official Supporter of the film, listed in the film’s credits. You will receive all the rewards mentioned above. 

Co-Sponsor

Donate $2,500.00 or more

Amount over $50.00 is tax-deductible.

You will be thanked and credited as an official Co-Sponsor of the film, listed in the film’s credits. You will receive all the rewards mentioned above. 

Executive Producer

Donate $5,000.00 or more

Amount over $50.00 is tax-deductible.

You will be thanked and credited as an Executive Producer of the film. You will receive all the rewards mentioned above.