Your email address will not be published. October 16, 2020 3:53 PM EDT. Sibil Fox Richardson - better known as Fox Rich - is a small business owner, author, minister, and subject of the Academy Award-nominated documentary, Time (2020). As Bradley parted ways with Sibil Fox Richardson, the film's main protagonist, Fox Richardson casually handed Bradley a bag. I hope that these are things that that they that do resonate, to think about intimacy and the connection that we have with one another. Q: What did you learn about maybe the justice system that you didnt know going into it? In Times liberatory field of vision, abolition is the end goal. We just are very careful about how we use it, who we share it with what we spend it on, what we allow it to take our attention and time. And instead of using the whip, they use mother time The experience itself is just like when they used to hang people but barely hang them, and leave their feet just tiptoeing around in the mud. These are the words of Sibil Fox Rich, compelling subject of new documentary Time. Most of all, we see Rich gradually (though not always chronologically) coming into her own, whether shes publicly reckoning with her long-ago crime at church, taping a TV commercial for the car dealership she now runs or speaking publicly about the pain of growing older without her husband and seeing her boys grow up without their father. Thanks for sharing this documentary, I havent watched this and now I got an idea whats the story. Royce Duplessis represented District 93 before he was elected and sworn in as Louisiana State Senator for District 5 back in December.District 93 early voting starts on Feb. 3, and election night is on Feb. 18.Candidate admits domestic violence history, one group calls for actionHowever, that is the big weekend of Mardi Gras, with numerous parades rolling right through that district that covers all of Downtown, the Central Business District, Garden District, Central City, and Uptown. Hearst Television participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Mr. Richardson focuses his lobby on Louisiana, one of the states with the most prisoners serving life sentences without parole. This recognition says stories of this kind matter, Ms. Bradley said. Aint no hurry. Its18,000 acres of land. [Fox and Robs] faith will stir your courage, their love will expand your soul, and their tireless fight for justice will embolden you to speak on behalf of human dignity wherever you find it being dishonored., Exposing the toll that the American prison system takes on an individual and their family, Fox and Robs story of heartbreak and perseverance needs to be heard around the world., Kenya Barris, writer, producer, director, actor, This story has to be told. "Time," directed by Garrett Bradley, consists of a great deal of video footage that Fox Rich filmed herself during the family's ordeal that began in the late 1990s and continued through 2018. Her life mantra is to make manifesting fun! While the documentary evinces Bradleys elegant artistry as a filmmaker, Time is not a singular auteur vision. It wasnt because we we went out and supported the person who was becoming governor, it was because we believe that we were deserving of it and no was not an option for us. It touched my heart. Fox:I believe that those that are well meaning abolitionists will see this film and their spirits will be invoked to do something about it. I kind of dont think we should have any any of those expectations or traditions. While we can capture memories on film, Robs viewpoint reminds us that spectatorship is no substitute for a lived experience with those we love and time lost. Not necessarily in the context of her film (although it enabled it to become a feature), but in the trust Rich was placing in her, to safeguard her memories. Knox is a military veteran who owns a coffee shop in. Guess what? She will secure resources for at-risk youth and single mothers, revitalize project independence, make our streets safer, repave our roads, and protect our neighborhoods from flooding. He was sentenced to 60 years for armed robbery; much of the movie takes place at a time when he has been in prison nearly 18 years. Q: Do you think maybe those Home Videos came across a little bit clearer, easier with the black and white? Return to FoxandRob.com/Time and provide your name, email address, and proof of purchase in the form below.3. Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American injustice, Garrett Bradley's Academy Award-nominated feature documentary debut traces the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six and a fiercely outspoken prison abolitionist, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Sibil Fox Richardson in a scene from "Time." (Courtesy of Amazon Studios) There is a scene in the documentary "Time" that captures a woman on the phone trying to speak to a judge's clerk. WELL, WHILE YESTERDAY WAS A BIG DAY FOR CARNIVAL, IT WAS ALSO A BIG DAY IN POLITICS. He is the author of the book FilmCraft: Editing and serves as chair of the National Society of Film Critics and secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. As my wife says so beautifully, she says that love is the most divine chemical in the universe and it destroys it overcomes it takes over anything that is not of itself. GB: The first place to start is that I obviously made a really conscious decision to address incarceration in regards to its effects on families and the ripple effect that happens on families. When Ms. Bradley began working on Time in 2016, she envisioned a 13-minute film, similar to her earlier Times Op-Doc short, Alone, about women with incarcerated partners, also featuring Ms. Rich. Piano chords flood the soundtrack, and images flood the screen: We see Rich hanging out with her boys at home, splashing about with them in a pool, lecturing them in the car and jostling next to them on a carnival ride. FoxandRob are using their platform to speak truth to power and are leading voices in the movement to end mass incarceration. In 1997, Richardson and her husband were arrested for bank . The films final image is that of the happy couple, Fox and Rob, sharing a kiss 20 years ago. Timeis a 2020 American documentary film produced and directed by Garrett Bradley. A True Story of Personal Transformation. There has been such an awesome outpouring of love and emotional support and numerous folks from the community asking to do something more to ease his reentry efforts. After facing up to 297 years in prison, Fox Rich turned her life around and shares the lessons she learned on her journey with others in this crime prevention tale. And that feeds into ideas around the importance of the black archive in America. To learn more, visit foxrich.com or follow on social: @foxrich. Rather than giving us the big picture, it gives us the personal, emotional experience, and it shows how incarceration, like slavery, permeates every aspect of life, for those on the outside as well as those behind bars. A really long time.. Her husband Robert Richardson was sentenced to 60 years in prison and held. The shot cuts to a montage of home-video footage rolling in reverse. The Times editors Lindsay Crouse, Andrew Blackwell and Kate Sinclair critiqued and fact-checked the work. At that point, Ms. Bradley recalled, It became very clear the film would be longer than 13 minutes.. He and Fox now campaign together for families affected by incarceration and for prison reform. (The story of Roberts nephew, who also participated in the crime, goes untold here.). In order to post comments, please make sure JavaScript and Cookies are enabled, and reload the page. I love hearing about life stories as it helps me understand my own reality better. The documentary TV series The New York Times Presents airs on FX and streams on Hulu; Diagnosis, an episodic adaptation of the New York Times Magazine column, is offered on Netflix; and Amazons Modern Love anthology series is modeled after that Styles desk feature. Alongside these black-and-white images of events and rituals, Bradleys contemporary footageshot in a complementary gray scalesimilarly captures the quotidian activities of Fox and her family as they fight for her husbands release from prison. That the talk about white privilege, we just dont do that in our household because being a person of color has its privileges in society, and you just have to seek those out because you believe that they are yours right? That glamour suffuses nearly all the recent footage, bringing an intense, almost sacralizing beauty to bear on simple deeds and gestures: a young man ironing a shirt, a woman steeling herself for another dispiriting phone call. Make no mistake about it, this power couple are using their mess-turn-message to bring greater awareness to the systemic issues of mass incarceration, while promoting civic engagement.The founders of Rich Family Ministries, The Richs, have committed their lives and their resources to not only bringing greater awareness, but also providing sustainable solutions to familys suffering from the hardships associated with crime and punishment.The Rich family hit the ground running and has shared their testimony with audiences far and wide. That candidate is Sibil "Fox" Richardson. Fox Rich recorded hundreds of hours of home videos while her husband, Rob Rich, was in prisonso he could see his children grow up. In that sense, Time is more a collaboration between the two women than an orthodox documentary. But Mr. Richardson says theres an urgent need for further reform, and he implores the governor and the state legislature to ban life sentences without parole. How long is 21 years plus four . Justin Chang has been a film critic for the Los Angeles Times since 2016. Traversing two decades of video footage, Time carries viewers along Ms. Richs solitary journey raising the couples six sons while transforming into an activist, asking if a system that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is a justice system at all. I fight any day of the week for them. Many years later, she turned over her roughly 100-hour trove of material to Bradley, who had already been filming Rich and her six sons (including those now fully grown twins, Freedom and Justus). Maybe Ive missed her on television but I cant believe 60 Minutes, Ellen, and so on havent done features on her. You got a chance to call today? I have not. No? [INAUDIBLE] yet. Nothing yet. He then received an MBA from Trinity University with an emphasis on Organization Development. That sentence would seem outrageously punitive elsewhere, but, for a black man in Louisiana, it is practically routine. Not only are they empowering others with their words, they are also allowing their experience to serve as a demonstration that love is possible for all who seek it. In 2017, she made a documentary short about Alon, who was now engaged to her incarcerated boyfriend. Reach the reporter at Shaena.Montanari@gannett.com. They have absolutely no idea what it means to have a father in their house, what fathers even do. Mama! And it really felt to me that it actually it made the the difference in time really stand out. Amazon's "Time," directed and produced by Bradley, follows the journey of Sibil "Fox" Richardson, a true warrior for justice as she fights for her husband's freedom while challenging our. Her story is told through this beautiful documentary directed by Garrett Bradley, and I got an opportunity to chat with the director, Fox & Rob Richardson for a Zoom roundtable discussion about TIME. I cant help myself! As Fox is placed on hold, Bradleys camera waits in real time as Fox stares at the phone in anticipation. And really frankly, taking a lot of the aesthetic choices alone, the short film I mentioned was in black and white. She has also worked in commercial film-making. Even with two decades of activism behind, they are a work in progress. It was never an option. Fox: As they let me go. T his is a viscerally emotional documentary about Sibil Fox Richardson, an African-American woman from New Orleans who almost two decades ago began a passionate, desperate campaign for her. Thanks for this Q&A which brought me even closer to this documentary. This book has to be read. The investor of their as-yet-unopened urban streetwear store pulled out, and the two ran out of options to support themselves and their children. Cherish every moment of this movie, because each one stands in for all the others that have been lost. She got 13 . John Bel Edwards of Louisiana has sought to shed the states reputation as the nations incarceration capital, signing into law a package of criminal justice reform bills intended, in part, to reduce the size of the prison population. Its a heart wrenching story. The Richardson familys interpretations of time help structure their experiences of Robs absence. So not only was it impossible for us to get into the prison itself, to film it, and to show what was happening in there simultaneous to the familys experience; but even shooting, bringing a drone over that property at a plant property, land could only capture a fraction of the magnitude of that. Facts dont always become emotional, but I think in our bodies and our minds, the things that we feel become the truth., Had she taken a different approach, the film would never have happened. It follows SibilFox Richardson, fighting for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence. Its tastefully handled, but youre struck by the fact that whatever has been going on, it has been going on in front of a cameraperson filming from the front seat. She tells us how she and Robert fell in love as teenagers, married in 1997 and hoped to open a hip-hop clothing store in Shreveport, La. Their story is told in their new book, TIME: The Untold Story of the Love That Held Us. What a great interview! Sibilwho also goes by the name Fox Richparticipated . The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Q:What made you do this film in a black and white construct? She got 13 years but was released after three and a half; Robert was dissuaded by his lawyer from taking a plea deal. Under the working title Flat Rob, inspired by the six-foot-tall cardboard cutout of Mr. Rich that the family carried with them as they wished for his return home, Ms. Bradley hoped to tell a story about the effects of incarceration centering as much on the people outside as in. The film bridges the past and the present, exposing mass incarcerations domestic impact on the lives of those tethered to and regulated by the penal system. On the surface, Time is about a Black mother of six named Sibil Fox Richardson who is trying to get her husband, Robert, out of state prison in Louisiana. The couple, whose birth names are Sibil Fox and Robert Richardson (they go by the collective FoxandRob), now help families of inmates navigate the justice system through the Participatory Defense Movement New Orleans, part of a national community organizing network. I started to comb through it. I dont go out looking for stories, I meet people director Garrett Bradley at her films premiere in Los Angeles this month. NEW YORK (AP) For the 21 years while Sibil "Fox" Richardson's husband, Rob, was imprisoned, they were, she says, "a telephone, letter-writing, visitation, just-stay-alive and keep-your-head-above-water couple.". Americas prison system, its impact on black communities and its continuity with historic slavery, has come under renewed scrutiny in recent years, thanks to works such as Ava DuVernays 13th, Michelle Alexanders The New Jim Crow, Douglas Blackmons Slavery By Another Name, and Eugene Jareckis The House I Live In. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram. TIME is directed by Garrett Bradley (Alone,America) and produced by Lauren Domino (The Earth Is Humming,America), Kellen Quinn (Midnight Family,Brimstone & Glory) and Garrett Bradley. But one of them to the point in terms of the color spectrum, was at the materiality in the spectrum of color that existed within the archive, really varied and was very different from what our modern day footage looked like. The dramatic moment crescendos when she slams her hand on her desk, cursing and critiquing the racial politics she has to contend with. Some of these images recur steadily throughout, as if to remind us of the repetition that comes with waiting, the ritualistic despair that seeps into every moment. The futures looking bright. I learned a lot! Advancing from the six-candidate field to the March 25 runoff election for the seat were Sibil "Fox" Richardson and Alonzo Knox, though neither can claim much of a mandate from Saturday's results. His familys struggle. Empowered by their experiences, FoxandRob are leading the movements conversation on Love and Family Matters and allowing their example to serve as a true demonstration of love reimagined. Black and White helped create sort of a uniformity and visual linearity that then allowed us from a narrative standpoint to really jump around in time in a more graceful way. I got an amazing opportunity to interview Fox and her husband, in which I learned she is still the firecracker of a woman who loves her family through thick and thin. SO TAKE A LOOK AT LAST NIGHTS RESULTS. The progress that has been made over generations is visible in Time. Sibil Fox Richardson, also known as Fox Rich, is a formerly incarcerated woman. The election is between two Democratic candidates, Alonzo Knox, and Sibil "Fox" Richardson. Time is only 88 minutes but it covers 20 years in the life of the Rich family of New Orleans. I dont put work into the world that people who are in it havent seen before the rest of the world has seen it. The film follows Sibil Fox Richardson (also known as Fox Rich), an entrepreneur, self-described abolitionist, author, and mother of six, as she fights for the release of her husband, Rob, serving a 60-year prison sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for his participation in an armed bank robbery. In one statement, Sibil Fox Richardson summarizes her decades-long struggle to free her husband Rob from a 60-year prison sentence for armed robbery, a stretch, she also tells us, "without . Before she can say much more, one of her young sons, Laurence, pops into the frame with a goofy grin and for the next few minutes the camera is giddily aloft, leaping from one scene to the next, in what almost feels like a single uninterrupted movement. A lot of the injustices that are happening in those murky places or whatever or unknown to the to the general public. Time, a breathtaking documentary by Garrett Bradley, follows a young couples journey to keep their family together during a 20-year prison stay. For media inquiries, contact Shanon Stowe at ICON Media Group (shanon [at] iconmediagroup.com). Like that tension never changes from from the moment you decide to do it, to when youre shooting, to how it comes out into the world. I had gotten a life sized poster made of Rob to put him in space in our home, as I became even more focused in my fight. I admire her commitment, and I love seeing him doing better for himself. Oftentimes it is one of the only sources of evidence of who we are outside of an external gaze. 2,170 following. Shes the most inspiring person Ive encountered on film this year or in years. Alonzo Knox and Sibil "Fox . It is the story of a man, of any of us. Not to be denied, after her release from prison in 2002, Fox Rich led a valiant charge to regain her husbands freedom. We were a poor family in Louisiana, the only family in 2018, to be received clemency from our government that was incarcerated. Parades like Iris, Tucks, and Endymion rolled on Feb. 18. Sibil Fox Richardson, better known as Fox Rich, was the first person to qualify to fill the vacancy created in House District 93 after Royce Duplessis was elected to the Louisiana State Senate late last year. It's Rich's story that Bradley tells in Time though "tells" already vastly. Authors of TIME available 2.7.23 & focus of the Amazon . Under Louisiana's jungle primary system, all candidates . Its an intensely intimate sequence, teeming with life, pulsing with joy and yet marked by a powerful, palpable absence. We burn what we call Flat Rob. Our young men are at that age right now, where they are ready to kind of ready take it to the streets, they see all of the in justices and things that are going on. Documentary Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The film is both a portrait of a woman's fight to keep her family together despite her husband's imprisonment and a look at the harm mass incarceration inflicts not only to the incarcerated (in. She then earned her masters degree in public administration at Grambling State University. But the vote was not unanimous. It sounds like a hard hitting story that will resonate with so many people.! Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Sibyl Fox Richardson in a still from director Garrett Bradleys documentary Time. (Courtesy Amazon Studios). I think that this story like none other puts time before us, like we never could have imagined. So I just dont think that someone can watch this film of two decades, and and not be moved in some space by one piece or another to do something different. In one memorable scene, she stands before her church congregation and asks for forgiveness from all those she has made suffer. They are the proud parents of six sons. So thats the other thing that were hopeful for is that people will be able to be made to call it to action if you would. And this turned Robs whole story over. You can feel this way in the film, you see me putting the camera on the dash when Im laying it there saying, Were the Riches!We went through a lot to really get it right, we didnt have an example of what families look like in our community, but we wanted to build it in with three children between us, we went to the altar and fix that sh*t! Los Angeles, A $150,000 executive protection dog? Garrett Bradley's new documentary follows Sibil 'Fox Rich' Richardson as she fights for the release of her incarcerated husband, illuminating one of the 2.3 million faces behind America's . We wanted them to be into the streets to fight for something that they felt was right. It is a co-directed work that demonstrates how amateur filmmaking meant for private use can counter more visible forms of popular entertainment. Sometimes, I feel like our justice system has a severe lack of justice in it. Counter to the slew of prison films and television programming that have shaped the public imagination of life behind bars, Bradley shifts attention away from the geography of the prison as central to examining the carceral state and instead concentrates on the private sphere. Its not really about the crimes, its about many, many other things which we as a culture need to resolve if we want to live in a fair and just and equal society, and I believe that most of us do.. But were still not free., The Times Feature Film in the Oscar Spotlight, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/insider/oscar-film-prison-time.html. In the 80-minute collage of home video and vrit footage, Bradley illustrates how the state uses time punitively to warp the lives of the incarcerated and non-incarcerated. To be honest with you, I just love black and white. I still think as filmmakers, we should just think of it as a choice and I dont even know if we need to have a deep reason behind it all the time. Q: How important was that to include the children in the story as well? It wasnt because we donated to the campaign. To have that footage use later on to tell a much, much bigger story is nothing less than amazing. My twins will be 18 next month. Foxs footage ranges from the momentous to the mundane: their six childrens playdates, family gatherings, speaking engagements, birthday celebrations, car rides, school activities, and confessionals. Let them guide you. So much of being a film-maker is energy work. Instead of commuting Mr. Richs sentence to time served, the judge gave him 40 years of parole, a 9 p.m. curfew (some exceptions are allowed) and indefinite community service. Now you see me! [PHONE RINGS] Hello. Did you get any word from over at the big house today? No. My only complaint was that it left me wanting to know more. Times conclusion provides both joy- and grief-filled catharsis with Robs release from prison, an unanticipated climax that required Bradley to reassemble her crew five months after completing shooting. Time is showing at the London film festival on 15 October. It is designed just like slavery to tear you apart. I think when color became an option and kind of just became a standard and an expectation and cinema and filmmaking is still so young. Featuring Robert Richardson,Sibil Fox Richardson and Freedom Richardson, Robert Richardson was incarcerated for 21 years before being granted clemency. 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