SYNOPSIS
Set Her Free sheds light on the lives of women incarcerated at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in New Jersey, many of whom are serving long sentences for crimes stemming from their survival of domestic violence.
Director:JLove Calderón
Language: English
Duration: 1:05:00 MINS
Year: 2026
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
FILM DETAILS
Date: Sunday - October 18, 2026
Time: 1:45 PM
Plainfield Public Library
800 Park Avenue Plainfield NJ, 07060
SCREENING DETAILS
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EMERGING FILM
About the Director
JLove Calderón is a filmmaker and lifelong activist with more than two decades of experience driving cultural transformation through storytelling and justice-centered media. She is the Co-Founder & CEO of Inspire Justice, Executive Producer & Director at Inspire Justice Productions, and Founding & Managing Partner at Black Women Animate (BWA) Studios. Her work spans film, television, and publishing, with powerful projects including The Message featuring Joey Bada$$, Breaking Bias with Grammy-winner J. Ivy, and We the People (distributed by REVOLT). Her feature documentary White in America will be released on streaming platforms this year, adding to a body of work that reflects a lifelong devotion to challenging inequity and centering truth. JLove is also the author of That White Girl (Atria/Simon & Schuster), co-editor of four social justice books, and a contributing author to UnCommon Bonds. Her award-winning films and literary works continue to spark dialogue, inspire action, and shift culture toward justice.