The First Step Act, a criminal-justice reform law, happened because a self-described “law-and-order” president, who had months earlier called for the execution of major drug dealers, somehow found common ground with members of the social-justice left.
An odd thing happened in 2018. President Donald Trump was presiding over a divided country — one that had just shown its displeasure by delivering the House of Representatives to Democrats in that year’s midterms, but also its political diversity by boosting the Republican majority in the Senate. And yet, as it headed for the exits that December, the 115th Congress delivered and the president signed a strikingly bipartisan law, one that drew “yeas” from diametrically opposed senators.
Van Jones, Jared Kushner and Kim Kardashian were among the champions of the First Step Act. | Meridian Hill Pictures and Magic Labs Media Director Brandon Kramer said they "needed to create an experience for viewers across a very diverse political background" so the viewers could trust them and connect with the film. | Meridian Hill PicturesWe started the film in 2016. Trump had just been elected. The country was extremely divided. It felt like we were spiraling away from each other and moving further and further apart.
For producer Lance Kramer, it was important to tell the story of “bridge building” in a personal way — through collaboration, cooperation and compromise. | Meridian Hill PicturesSomething that was also very important was to tell that story in a very personal way. You could certainly immerse yourself in the abstraction of “building bridges” and, rhetorically, why it’s important.
I’m not saying it’s easy. No one left their political views at the door. I wouldn’t say anybody’s politics changed. I think their perception of people that believe something different changed. They don’t see them as enemies as much. And the hope with the film is that audiences could walk in real time through that experience and maybe be a little disarmed themselves in the way they relate to other people in their lives.
Audiences are used to seeing things that just embolden their point of view and minimize other people’s point of view. This film invites them in because they see perspectives that represent how they feel, but it also gives them an empathetic viewing to other people’s perspectives. And what I’ve seen is that it doesn’t change people’s minds about how they feel.
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