} But the vote was not unanimous. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020, where Bradley won the US Documentary Directing Award, the first African-American woman to do so. .indicate_scroll { margin: 0; She and Bradley bonded instantly, and the 34-year-old filmmaker began a yearlong project documenting the Rich family for what she envisioned as a short companion piece to Alone. On the final day of filming, as the filmmaker packed up her gear, Fox handed her an unexpected treasure trove: A small black bag filled with dozens of miniDV tapes that held 100 hours of footage shed shot over the course of 21 years.

By clicking Subscribe Now, you agree to our. background-color: #6db24f; Even then, I never had the heart to take off my wedding ring. In alternating voices and intimate detail, Fox and Rob reveal what the film does nothow a person can cultivate the radical love needed to see them through any hardship and how miracles can happen on the way. Instead, we see this amends-making being retold by Rich, as she speaks to a church group, and the narrative continues to stay close to her over the years during many other pivotal events, like the aforementioned court hearings, or new legal representation, taking place at the other end of phone calls, or at the edge of the frame. } I had my husband. Her husband Robert Richardson was sentenced to 60 years in prison and held captive in the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola, for a bank robbery the couple committed in 1997. As a formerly incarcerated woman who spent 21 years fighting for my husband, Robs release and over 25 years fighting for change in our broken system, I know how to fight for what I believe in. letter-spacing: .03em; event.srcElement.innerText = '[hide]'; At the time, we thought all we needed was money: money would fix everything. font-size: 12px; Thats because six months after that day, the world came crashing down on the Richardsons, who now go by Fox and Rob G. Rich, when the Shreveport, La., couple took part in a botched bank robbery that sent both of them and their nephew to prison. Sibil Fox Richardson is holding the device, trying to find out where she wants to set it up. top: -1px; We discovered our home had a cracked foundation, and the whole structure needed to be redone. Chris Pine finally sets the record straight, Oscars diversity improved after #OscarsSoWhite, study shows. InTIME, the upcoming Amazon Original Movie documenting the Rich familys often tumultuous and uncertain journey, viewers are invited into Foxs struggle to keep her family together, while simultaneously holding the broken pieces of her heart. Worked with Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC), Voters Organized to Educate (VOTE), the Promise of Justice Initiative (PJI), the Innocence Project, Step Up Louisiana, and more. .mw-body #mw-content-text .votebox .race_header h5.votebox-header-election-type { Never did she think it would be 21 years in the making.. Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You succeed anyhow., Fox first met Bradley when she appeared in the filmmakers 2017 short documentary Alone, which followed a young woman named Alon Watts as she weighed the decision to marry her incarcerated boyfriend. Fox and Rob's eldest son on beating the odds, the overwhelming reception to his family's documentary "Time," and what love means to him after watching his parent's love story. padding-bottom: 0px; At the heart of Time is a Black woman named Sibil Fox Richardson, who goes by Fox Rich. My mom was like, That wont happen to this family, he says. column-width: 175px; How do you get somebody back thats trying to destroy you? Time is unbiased. $('.collapse').collapse('show'); background-color: grey; width: 100%; Despite fighting for some semblance of restorative justice, the court decided that Fox and Robs lives,andtheir childrens lives, were worth less than the$5,134.95recovered in the minutes after the botched bank robberya crime committed because the two Shreveport, Louisiana, business owners believed that the so-called American Dream was worth having by any means necessary. .widget-value { And while the documentary never reduces its subjects to mere symbols of the oppression they represent the film couldn't be more personal, and it builds to a moment of such unvarnished intimacy that you can hardly believe what you're watching. color:white; Ballot measures, Who represents me? Rather, it was made by the movies principal subject, Sibil Fox Richardson, a.k.a. At that point, Bradley developed the short as a feature. We root for her as she stares down a system that has heaped so many atrocities upon Black women that it cant even look us straight in the eye. Sibil Fox and Robert Richardson are a New Orleans-based couple who endured twenty-one years as an incarcerated family and whose story is told in the acclaimed, award-winning documentary Time. border: 1px solid #999; width: 90%; People will take your story and run with it or make dollars off of your trauma. Sibil Fox Richardson and Robert Richardson were young newlywed parents in love in 1997 when they snuck a kiss during a car ride as her camcorder rolled on the dashboard, preserving in grainy image the kind of fleeting everyday moment most of us take for granted. width: 57%; October 16, 2020 3:53 PM EDT. It was released theatrically on October 9, 2020, and digitally on Amazon Prime Video on October 16, 2020 by Amazon Studios. .widget-row.Independent, .widget-row.Nonpartisan, .widget-row.Constitution { $('.pastResponses').hide(); You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Sibil films herself with a keenly self-conscious sense of moment; she transforms the ordinary and humble home video to monumental dimensions, and Bradley (working with the cinematographers Zac Manuel, Justin Zweifach, and Nisa East) conveys the same urgency in Sibils presence. [7][10] She intended to make a short documentary about Rich, but when shooting wrapped, Rich gave Bradley a bag of mini-DV tapes containing some 100 hours of home videos she had recorded over the previous 18 years. It became clear that there needed to be a conversation around incarceration that was rooted in the effects of it, that was talking about the issue from a place that was inherently familial and that was maybe even inherently feminist, Bradley said of Alone, which won the Sundance Short Film Jury Award in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Oscars. background-color: grey; That love was imperative for us to be where we are today.. I chose moments that I felt would make it unavoidable, that would prove what I knew inherently, and also to think about performance as an example of both oppression and resistance all in one, said Garrett, who will present America as a video installation this fall in her first solo exhibition in New York, a partnership between the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. padding-left: 10px; Mr. Smith, who was 20 at the time of the robbery,. } width: 350px; } After serving three-and-a-half years behind bars, I was released and began the next phase of my journey: raising six children as a single parent and fighting for our family's reunion. padding-left: 16px; I wasnt going to allow my circumstances to define who I was as a person, Remington tells ESSENCE. "[9], Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times said the film is "a dazzling formal feat, but more than that, it's a profoundly sad movie about what it means to grow up without a father, to absorb that blow continually, day after day. Rob, who was released early through clemency in 2018, says that the films release has been both bittersweet and therapeutic., When youre fighting to undo a 60-year sentence, or an unjust sentence, the act of doing so keeps you in the heat of battle so youre never really focused on whether or not someone else is watching youre just trying to get free, he said. margin-right: 10px; } font-weight: 500; "Time," directed by Garrett Bradley, consists of a great deal of video footage that Fox Rich filmed herself during the family's ordeal that began in the late 1990s and continued through 2018. When we were in the car and I looked at us, I was the happiest I had ever been in my life. Even in the dire straits, with that love, a kid can make it. .leg-hnt-leadership > div { .mw-body #mw-content-text .votebox .race_header h3.votebox-header-office-name { font-weight: bold; width: 250px; Nearly two decades into Roberts sentencewhen the youngest of the Richardson children were already grownBradley joined forces with Sibil to document both the familys great occasions (one son graduates from dental school; another, in college, becomes an elected officer in school and plans a career in criminal-justice reform) and Sibils persistent, diligent, carefully planned work petitioning judges to seek Roberts release. U.S. Congress | .mw-body #mw-content-text th.votebox-results-cell--text { The boys and I moved to Houston, Texas and began to make a life there. When he knocked on the door, I answered. } } A love that would hold us together during our darkest days. Fox Richardson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. One of the things that I heard them say after the film was, Wow, I didnt even realize we had been through all of that, Fox said of her children last week from New Orleans, beaming through happy tears as Rob sat by her side, squeezing her in an embrace. Now etched in black and white in the new documentary Time from director Garrett Bradley, the moment is both memory and promise, a quiet gesture made epic and totemic by the decades of heartache that followed. Time is lost. I felt a range of emotions from disbelief to relief, as my husband, Rob, walked out the gates of Angola State Penitentiary after 21 years and four days of incarceration. The pioneering news show, launched in 1968 and now available to stream, had soul and an insider energy. Garrett Bradley came in and she was more so family. The agonizing yet majestic particulars of the Richardsons lives are brought together in a deft, freely associative montage (the film was edited by Gabriel Rhodes) that, true to the title, evokes timeits passage moment by moment, the power and the pain of memory, the keen sense of loss that it brings, and, above all, the feeling that the time a person has is the substance of life. "I am now humbly submitting myself to fight for the people of District 93--people I believe in. text-align: left !important; The lifesize cardboard picture of Rob would even be taken on family trips, sitting him in the car with a seatbelt on. Click on your favorite retailer to preorder Time before February 7, 2023.2. The woman on the phone is Sibil Fox Richardson and she's trying to get her husband released from prison while also raising six boys. Were still here, thoughstill fighting, still believing that we will win. "Time" is her story, augmented by video diary entries she. .image-candidate-thumbnail-wrapper { } Thedetermined wife and mother of six never perpetuates the fraudulent notion that you must be flawless to have value. She has spent her life fighting for the reunification of her family, and other underserved members of the community. .outer_percentage { font-weight: bold; Time flies. flex: 0 0 150px; Yet she also details the depravities of incarceration, which lead her to question and challenge pat slogans and unchallenged assumptions of the penal system. Jen Yamato is a film reporter for the Los Angeles Times. .inner_percentage.Democratic { When it was in danger of going out of business, the couple took part in a bank robbery and were arrested. color: #888; text-align: center; } Sibil Fox Richardson in "TIME." Courtesy Amazon Studios. It takes human beings. padding-bottom: 5px; All rights reserved. I don't know how or why, but even while in a living hell, I was willing to dreamto hope. Emptiness gave way to elation as we embraced each other, free at last from external restraints and the inhibitions of prison life. But it was very hard. There were no incumbents in this race. flex-direction: column; It follows Sibil Fox Richardson, also known as Fox Rich, as she pushes for the release of her husband, serving a long sentence for armed robbery at Angola prison, one of the worst in the United States. Rob's presence was strong, and his love for his family could be felt beyond the prison walls. in 2009, Member of the National Council for Incarcerated and Former Incarcerated Women and Girls and the Independent Women's Organization, Contracted with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to teach life skills to girls at the Ware Youth Center. } }. After you preorderTime, enter your information to receive the audiobook, which is read by Fox and Rob and includes exclusive bonus content. Newly married high school sweethearts in 1997, a momentary decision to rob a bank landed both of them in jail. Interns wanted: Get paid to help ensure that every voter has unbiased election information. With the help of my mother and our community, I raised our six sons throughout Rob's entire incarceration. .leg-hnt-leadership-title { It was an impact he couldnt have foreseen when filming began three years before his fathers 2018 release. Love can carry you through every challenge, that much I know. .votebox_legend { Fox Richs 21-year battle to free her husband from incarceration is at the heart of Garrett Bradleys Sundance prize-winning movie Time., To continue filming was a form of resistance to say, We messed that up, but we can fix it, and were going to. font-style: italic; To her, the film shares DNA with both Alone and her 2019 experimental short America, a work that builds from rare and recently rediscovered footage from the unreleased 1914 Bert Williams silent film Lime Kiln Club Field Day, thought to be the oldest surviving feature film with an all-Black cast and an integrated production team. Rewatching Black Journal Five Decades On. 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She is in the kitchen at first, the ceiling fan whirring overhead and the sound of a small child's. .mw-content-ltr td.votebox-results-cell--text, It was like a massive exhale after 21 years of holding our breath. We have an obligation to our family to bring him home, said Fox.

margin: 8px auto; .electionsectionheading { } Her husband Robert Richardson was sentenced to 60 years in prison and held. We began to open up and talk about our feelings candidly. display: inline-block; Richardson is a formerly incarcerated woman who served nearly four years for her role in an armed robbery and was granted clemency in 2018. He is set to be the first doctor in the family in May, in dental surgery. In 1997 she planned to open a hip-hop clothing store in Shreveport, La., with her husband, Rob. Love is hard but its worth it, he says. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well. Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. width: 100%; padding: 2px 0; Fox is now ready to serve in an official capacity and fight for you. We all want to feel safe in the community we love, and to ensure our children are accounted for and prepared. Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Well fulfil your corporate needs with the highest level of professionalism. }) z-index:1; But soon after we married, the college I taught at terminated my position. We've now been together for 35 years. Two Democrats are headed to a runoff in a special election for a vacant Louisiana House seat representing parts of New Orleans after getting the most votes Saturday. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. I know I didnt get away with nothing but my life. Fox Rich. display: inline-block; Fox - who for nearly two decades had been campaigning for the release of her own husband, Rob, after he was sentenced in 1999 to 60 years in prison for a robbery - appears in the film for just a few moments. .widget-key { If you are willing to work with me, I give you my word that I will fight for us., Sibil Fox Richardson, better known as Fox Rich, has spent her life fighting for her family and will do the same for the families of House District 93. [10] It was selected for the 2019 Sundance Documentary Edit & Story Lab. I have the experience and passion to be relentless in my pursuit of a better quality of life for us all, and I am asking for your vote. .contact_office { margin-top: 0.3em; margin-bottom: 0em;margin-right: 0.5em;} position: absolute; She was preserving for Robert as much as she could of the time that he missed, and she was doing so on the premise that, despite the seemingly ironclad sentence, he would be released earlybecause she was working relentlessly on his behalf, in legal efforts that she videotaped as well. Amazon Prime's 'Time' is a powerful documentary film that explores the toll incarceration can take on a family and how one woman can make all the difference in the world. It was love at first sightfor him, at least. Fox and Rob Richardson. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. My only complaint was that it left me wanting to know more. .contact_office { font-size: 0.8 em; margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em;margin-right: 0.5em;} I was breathless, watching as they attempted an armed bank robbery. One of the lessons we tried to teach them is that success is the best revenge, said Fox. } Market data provided by Factset. } [7][8][9], Bradley met Rich in 2016 while working on her short film Alone, a New York Times Op-Doc. The following candidates ran in the special primary for Louisiana House of Representatives District 93 on February 18, 2023. max-height: 580px; } It resulted in a foot chase, gunshots, and the end of our life as we knew it. U.S. President | margin-bottom:0px; ESSENCE.com is part of ESSENCE Communications, Inc. Sibil accepted a plea deal and served three anda halfyears behind bars. [16] In February 2020, Amazon Studios acquired its distribution rights. In 2008, at the lowest point in our relationship, Rob and I divorced. width: 100%; We slowly found our way back to each other. Now, this book goes into greater depth and detail in telling Fox and Rob Richardsons courageous battle to achieve justice for themselves and, ultimately, for so many who have been failed by the American legal system., Jeffrey Katzenberg, cofounder, WndrCo and DreamWorks, SKG, For Fox and Rob Richardson, its about determination, growth, love, and faithan inspiring success story against all odds. "[7] David Ehrlich of Indiewire gave it an A- and wrote, "Bradley's monumental and enormously moving Time doesn't juxtapose the pain of yesterday against the hope of tomorrow so much as it insists upon a perpetual now. I couldn't do anything. display: inline-block; Of the entire U.S. population under 18, 2.3 percent have an incarcerated parent. })(); See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection. The biggest thing for me is getting people to understand that clemency works, said Fox. Fox and Rob Richardson with five of their sons. How long is 21 years plus four . She is on the ballot in the special primary on February 18, 2023. .results_row td:first-child { a[aria-expanded=true] .fa-chevron-right { display: none; } .survey-result {padding:10px;} justify-content: center; You should let it, He put $40,000 on credit cards to make his first film. } A really long time.. Curious to know where Rob is now? Time depicts the ordinary, day-to-day activities of the Richardson familySibils appearance in a commercial for her company, her childrens successes in school and playful leisure, family outings and celebrationsand also how those activities are rendered bitterly, arduously, yet heroically extraordinary by the sheer burden that institutional racism imposes on them. The work of James E. Hinton focuses on the community-oriented elements of the civil-rights and Black Power movements. 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