SnagFilms and the D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development announced the winner of Washington’s Best Film competition at an event at George Washington University. “Released for Life,” produced by students attending The Documentary Center at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs was named Best Film by D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray and SnagFilms founder and chairman Ted Leonsis.
Washington’s first-ever Best Film competition was created to celebrate D.C.’s talented filmmakers and find original, diverse storytellers who display the spirit and quality that D.C.-based SnagFilms seeks out in all the films it showcases on its digital network. Participating filmmakers had to be D.C. residents or have a production company based within the District.
The winning film, “Released to Life,” tells several powerful stories of people returning home after incarceration. With the shadow of past convictions continuing to follow them, these recently released, D.C. based ex-offenders struggle to redefine themselves in a society that they no longer know.
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