Redemption Time

The Brief

Redemption Time is a powerful 70-minute multimedia performance film featuring poet Jimmy Santiago Baca and jazz violinist Christian Howes—two formerly incarcerated artists who reclaimed their lives through art. Combining spoken word, music, and visual art, the film invites audiences into a shared space of healing and transformation. With searing honesty and artistic brilliance, Baca and Howes reveal the trauma of incarceration and the redemptive force of art. Directed by David Gonzalez, Redemption Time is both an emotional journey and a call to reimagine justice, identity, and human potential.