When a young man mysteriously dies in a Bay Area jail, his mother begins a determined quest to find out what happened to him, but quickly runs into the opaque and powerful position of American sheriffs.
Biography:
Lucas Guilkey is a video journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Oakland, California. His work focuses on power, politics, social movements, democracy, and racial, economic, and ecologial justice. He has produced for AJ+, Splinter, Fusion, KTVU, Oakland North, and independent outlets, as well as assistant edited on the feature documentaries Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America and Bias. He is currently directing and producing Dying for Sunlight, a feature documentary about the unprecedented 2013 California prisoner hunger strikes against indefinite solitary confinement. He is a fellow at the Investigative Reporting Program and graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Wesleyan University.
