HUNTSVILLE STATION a film by Jamie Meltzer and Chris Filippone Contact: Jamie (https://bit.ly/39D9rz5) and Chris (https://bit.ly/2XLEq6C) Every weekday, inmates are released from Huntsville State Penitentiary, taking in their first moments of freedom with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block. SCREENINGS, AWARDS, and NOMINATIONS: IDA Documentary Awards – Best Short Nominee, 2020 Cinema Eye Honors – Outstanding Nonfiction Short Nominee, 2020 Berlinale, 2020 SXSW, 2020 Hot Docs, 2020 AFI Docs, 2020 DOXA, 2020 – Honorable Mention: Short Documentary Award Docaviv, 2020 – Best Short Award (Academy-Qualifying) Seminci: Valladolid International Film Festival, 2020 – Special Mention: Time of History Competition Camden International Film Festival, 2020 DOC NYC, 2020 Chicago International Film Festival, 2020 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, 2020 Calgary International Film Festival, 2020 New Orleans Film Festival, 2020 Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporaneo, 2020 – Special Jury Mention: International Short Film Competition Double Exposure Film Festival, 2020 SFFILM Doc Stories, 2020 IFF Message to Man Film Festival, 2020 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, 2020 Telluride Mountainfilm, 2020 Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, 2020 – Special Mention: International Competition Kyiv International Short Film Festival, 2020 – Grand Prix Award: International Competition Champs-Elysees Film Festival, 2020 – Jury Prize: Short Film Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, 2020 – Best Documentary Short Uppsala International Short Film Festival, 2020 Flickerfest, 2021 Palm Springs International Shortfest, 2020 – Special Mention: Best Documentary Short St. Louis International Film Festival, 2020 Milwaukee Film Festival, 2020 Odense International Film Festival, 2020 – Nominee: The Soapbox Award Beijing International Short Film Festival, 2020 Indy Shorts International Film Festival, 2020 Lille International Short Film Festival, 2020 Crested Butte Film Festival, 2020 – Best Documentary Short DC Shorts Film Festival, 2020 Savannah Film Festival, 2020 – Southern Voices: Best of Show Award Philadelphia Film Festival, 2020 – Honorable Mention: Best Documentary Short Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2020 Tirana International Film Festival, 2020 Nashville Film Festival, 2020 Drunken Film Festival, 2020 Tofifest International Film Festival, 2020 Tacoma Film Festival, 2020 50²201 Magazine, Berlin, 2020 OFF CINEMA International Documentary Film Festival, 2020 Glimmerglass Film Days, 2020 Shorts That Are Not Pants, 2020 – Best Documentary Short Blue Danube Film Festival, 2020 Las Cruces International Film Festival, 2020 Dumbo Film Festival, 2021 Loft Short Film Festival, 2020 Fargo Film Festival, 2021 National Gallery of Art, 2021 “Unorthodocs,” Wexner Center for the Arts, 2021 The New York Times Op-Docs, 2020 https://bit.ly/3qtswe9