AND SO I STAYED is an award-winning documentary about survivors of abuse fighting for their lives and spending years behind bars. These women paid a steep price with long prison sentences, lost time with loved ones, and painful memories. Formerly incarcerated survivor-advocate Kim Dadou Brown, who met her wife while incarcerated, is a driving force in the passage of New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA), a new law meant to prevent survivors from receiving harsh prison sentences for their acts of survival. Nikki Addimando, a mother of two young children, suffered the consequences when a judge didn’t follow the law’s guidelines. Tanisha Davis, a single mother who was ripped away from her son in 2013, is hopeful the new law is her way out of a harsh prison sentence.
Unfortunately the movie And So I Stayed is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Natalie Pattillo | Director |
Crew | Sarah Bellingham | Cinematography |
Production | Daniel A. Nelson | Producer |
Directing | Daniel A. Nelson | Director |
Production | Natalie Schreyer | Executive Producer |
Writing | Natalie Pattillo | Writer |
Camera | Daniel A. Nelson | Director of Photography |
Production | Julian Lim | Associate Producer |
Sound | Jacob Bloomfield-Misrach | Sound Editor |
Crew | Julian Lim | Cinematography |
Production | Natalie Pattillo | Producer |
Editing | Tyler H. Walk | Editor |
Sound | Osei Essed | Music Score Producer |