After Time

The scouts

Nine-minute doc on Britain's prison reintegration commissioned by a theatre company that works inside prisons — that origin point is the whole pitch and probably also the limit. Worthy, useful, not necessarily cinema.

Allen-Pickard's sustained collaboration with Kestrel Theatre Company gives this prison-reintegration documentary a working-knowledge intimacy that drop-in journalism cannot achieve. Nine minutes; quietly necessary.

9:07, Vimeo Staff Pick, 247 likes, commissioned by Kestrel Theatre Company — Allen-Pickard's prior work in carceral spaces is what makes this a real collaboration rather than parachute journalism. Staff Pick at this runtime usually means craft is operating; I'd trust the cut.