Shortly after Jessica Stillman celebrated her ninth birthday in the mid-’90s, her father went to prison. She has spent much of her life after that just trying to get close to him.
Her story is at the center of “Invisible Bars,” a new documentary by Benicia filmmaker John Beck about the children of incarcerated parents, airing Tuesday through Thursday on KQED-TV in San Francisco and April 15 on KRCB-TV in Rohnert Park.
The film follows Jessica behind bars for a rare sit-down interview with her father Fred Stillman, who served 23 years in Soledad state prrison for second-degree murder after a bar fight in Lake County.
“Fred Stillman was tough and cynical at first and ready to fight. It wasn’t until he started to get contact and visits from family that he started to turn around,” Beck said. “Jessica became a parent to her father. I was hoping to cover the next chapter.”
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