Filmed in cinema-verité style, JACINTA provides a raw look into the generational devastation caused by experiences of severe trauma, chronic addiction and recidivism. For over 3 years, Jacinta Hunt, mother Rosemary and young daughter Caylynn, allowed filmmaker and journalist Jessica Earnshaw, stark access to their lives in and out of prison.

JACINTA begins at the Maine Correctional Center where Jacinta, 26, and her mother Rosemary, 46, are incarcerated together, both recovering from drug addiction. As a child, Jacinta became entangled in her mother's world of drugs and crime and has followed her in and out of the system since she was a teenager. This time, as Jacinta is released from prison, she hopes to maintain her sobriety and reconnect with her own daughter, Caylynn, 10, who lives with her paternal grandparents. Despite her desire to rebuild her life for her daughter, Jacinta continually struggles against the forces that first led to her addiction. With emotional and engrossing material, captured between three generations of women, JACINTA intimately explores the cycles of drug use, trauma and incarceration that exist today where women are identified as the fastest growing prison population.

JACINTA is directed by award winning photographer Jessica Earnshaw and Executive
Produced by Impact Partners.