The Blue Hill Public Library is sponsoring a film screening of the documentary film Jacinta on Thursday, May 23 at 6:30pm in the library's Howard Room. After the screening of the film, Jacinta will join via Zoom for a short Q&A session. 

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.

This program is free and open to all, due to the generous sponsorship of the Friends of the Blue Hill Public Library. For more information, please email Kayleigh at kayleigh.thomas@bhpl.net or call the library at 374-5515.