Amazon has released a trailer for its powerful new documentaryTime, whose director,Garrett Bradley, won a jury prize at Sundance earlier this year.
The black-and-white film followsFox Rich, an entrepreneur, abolitionist and mother of six boys, who 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, Time paints a mesmerizing portrait of the resilience and radical love necessary to prevail over the endless separations of the countrys prison-industrial complex.
Bradley produced the acclaimed film withLauren DominoandKellen Quinn, whileLaurene Powell JobsandDavis Guggenheimserved as executive producers alongsideNicole Stott,Rahdi TaylorandKathleen Lingo.Jonathan SilberbergandShannon Dillserved as co-executive producers on the documentary, which was also selected for this year’s New York Film Festival.
Now, the best movies I’ve seen all year have been documentaries, including the Sundance titlesCrip Camp,Boys State,AssassinsandInto the Deep, so for Bradley to beat out the directors of all of those films for a jury prize at Sundance speaks to how well-receivedTimewas at the festival.
Filmed over the course of two decades,Timeis described as an intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, and Amazon will release the film in select theaters on Oct. 9 in advance of its global launch on Prime Video on Oct. 23.
I can’t wait to see this movie for myself, so watch the trailer below, and in case you want more documentary recommendations,click herefor Adam Chitwood’s review ofCrip Camp,as well as hereforMatt Goldberg’s review ofBoys State.
