{"id":8975,"date":"2024-11-20T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/?p=8975"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:37:52","slug":"palomar-college-award-winning-documentary-now-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/palomar-college-award-winning-documentary-now-streaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Palomar College Award Winning Documentary Now Streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>SAN MARCOS, CA \u2013 <\/strong>A movie created by Palomar College to document the challenges faced by formerly incarcerated students is now available for streaming \u2013 including a tragic update since the film was created.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/almosthomefilm\/\">\u201cAlmost Home: Life After Incarceration\u201d<\/a> is an award-winning feature-length documentary that focuses on students in Palomar College\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/risingscholars\/\">Rising Scholars Program<\/a> as they deal with getting a college education after being incarcerated. \u00a0Streaming is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/almosthomefilm\/\">film\u2019s website<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GciyvJGNfno\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The film, released in June 2023, won awards for best documentary and best director at the 2023 Pacific Southwest Emmy Awards. It has been shown at numerous film festivals and won an Award of Excellence Special Mention at the IndieFest Film Awards in October.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Director Bill Wisneski said he hopes members of the public who view the film will change their stereotyped perceptions of formerly incarcerated individuals. \u00a0\u201cWe want it to impact as many people as possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>One student highlighted in the film is Luis Jimenez, who attended Palomar College after he was released from prison. In the film, he is shown going on to attend the University of California at Los Angeles after he graduated from Palomar College and advocating in Sacramento for funding to support formerly incarcerated students.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In new footage after the film was first released, Rising Scholars Coordinator Nora Kenney is shown sitting at Jimenez\u2019s grave. He died by suicide on December 13, 2023. Jimenez had just turned 33.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>She and others in the program are still reeling from the death of Jimenez.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cLuis was always there for everyone else,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was so selfless that he didn\u2019t put his needs as a top priority.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The film also focuses on the successes of other formerly incarcerated students, including the eight students who graduated in 2024 \u2013 in total the students earned eight associate degrees and two certificates.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Kenney said the program has served 898 students since 2018, including 400 current students on-campus and incarcerated veterans at the Vista County Jail. Rising Scholars provides students support with the admission process, counseling, and financial aid. Peer mentors and weekly check-ins help students with any challenges they are facing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>She said formerly incarcerated students who have watched the film say that it validates their experience, from dealing with getting an education to basic needs such as finding a place to live.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cUnless you\u2019ve been incarcerated or know someone who was, it\u2019s hard to wrap your head around the experience,\u201d Kenney said. \u201cThe film brings awareness to that plight.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The film was shown last summer at Alcatraz, the notorious former prison in San Francisco, through a partnership with the National Park Service. Kenney took 18 students for the screening, which was shown to an audience of about 400 people.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Kenney is working with officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to show the film at all state prisons, and the California Community College Chancellor\u2019s Office Rising Scholars Network has hosted a virtual screening to similar programs across the state.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cWe want the film to give hope to those who are formerly incarcerated,\u201d Wisneski said. \u201cWe want to give them hope that there are more possibilities than they realize.\u201d<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN MARCOS, CA \u2013 A movie created by Palomar College to document the challenges faced by formerly incarcerated students is now available for streaming \u2013 including a tragic update since the film was created. \u201cAlmost Home: Life After Incarceration\u201d is an award-winning feature-length documentary that focuses on students in Palomar College\u2019s Rising Scholars Program as&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/palomar-college-award-winning-documentary-now-streaming\/\">\u00a0Continue Reading:<span> Palomar College Award Winning Documentary Now Streaming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10665,"featured_media":8976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,23,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-home","category-news","category-slider"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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