Life & Life

[Plays May 13-23 as part of the MSPIFF40 Film Festival; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org/festivals/mspiff for full schedule.] N. C. Heikin's powerful, captivating, down-to-Earth, thought-provoking, 79-minute documentary about talented Reginald Austin who has spent 35 years of a life sentence in San Quentin prison for 2nd degree manslaughter in the tragic death of a woman and tried many times to get paroled, which was finally granted in 2014 after he played the piano during a concert at the prison to honor legendary saxophone player Frank Morgan and details his struggles of life outside of his cell and consists of insightful commentary by inmates (such as Allen K. Ware [aka "Squirrel"], Greg Dixon, Darryl Farris, De ee, and Wilbert Rogers Jr.), wife Margaret Austin, Sacramento Assistant District Attorney Robin Shakley, Attorney and Executive Director Uncommon Law Executive Director Keith Wattley, parole board member Tom Sawyer, Dr. Daniel Nagin, public defender Rebecca Katz, daughter Nyree Austin Monroe, retired LAPD homicide detective Rick Jackson, Lieutenant Robinson, and grandsons Maxwell and John Austin.
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