“We definitely made some mistakes and I learned an awful lot during my time in office,” Boudin told KQED. “There are no two things we could have done differently that would have prevented what happened.”
This political moment is revisited in the new documentary Beyond Bars: It’s a Movement, Not a Moment, which premieres Wednesday, Oct. 25 at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library. Directed by Robert Greenwald, the film puts in parallel Boudin’s political and personal life, featuring on-the-record interviews with his parents and adoptive parents for the first time.
“This film is really about the history of racism and mass incarceration in this country. And it’s that same history that led in a circuitous way to my parents’…
