Free Screening of Powerful Documentary, Jacinta coming to Missoula.
The Parenting Place presents, Jacinta, a film about generational trauma and how their work helps to end the cycle of abuse.
The community is invited to a FREE film screening. A deeply intimate portrait of mothers and daughters and the effects of trauma, JACINTA follows a young woman in and out of prison as she attempts to break free from an inherited cycle of addiction, incarceration and crime.
Filmed for over three years, 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 unparalleled access and a gripping vérité approach, director Jessica Earnshaw paints a deeply intimate portrait of mothers and daughters and the effects of trauma over generations.
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Tribeca Film Festival 2020 – Albert Maysles Best New Documentary Director Award
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2020 – U.S. Features Best Documentary & Critic’s Choice
Special Jury Mention
Selected for the Cinema Eye Stay Focused Initiative 2021
Nominated for a 2021 Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight Award
Date: August 5th, 2021
Time: Gates open at 6pm. And film starts at 6:30pm
Location: Ogren Park at at Allegiance Field (PaddleHeads stadium)
Tickets: https://qrco.de/Jacinta
To celebrate The Parenting Place serving families for 40 years the first 40 hot dogs will be FREE!
The Parenting Place
Our Mission
The Parenting Place is a community-based, non-profit organization whose mission is the prevention of child abuse and neglect through strengthening families. Our goals are to help families develop healthy parent-child relationships, to improve the futures of our children and ensure healthy families.
History
The Parenting Place has a history of providing child abuse prevention services to families in Missoula and throughout Missoula County since 1981. We are a community-based, non-profit organization whose mission is the prevention of child abuse and neglect through strengthening families. Our goals are to help families develop healthy parent-child relationships, to improve the futures of our children and ensure healthy families. The Parenting Place continues to be the only agency in Missoula whose sole mission is the prevention of child abuse and neglect, collaborating with other family strengthening organizations whenever possible. We are at the forefront of best practices and continually strive to provide premium services to at-risk families. We also work diligently to avoid duplication of services with other agencies serving families and children in our community by collaborating with other family strengthening organizations.
The Parenting Place serves children in families where there is risk of abuse and neglect. Predominantly, these families are also very low income. Criteria used to assess families at risk include the following: Parents have a childhood history of abuse and neglect; Families lack support systems; Families are experiencing life crises; Parents are not aware of nurturing child rearing practices; Families are socially isolated. Our target audience is at-risk families, however, The Parenting Place services are open to all parents and children who are in need of support and education.