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- Winner, Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature, Independent Film Festival Boston
- Winner, Karen Schmeer Excellence in Documentary Film Editing Award, Independent Film Festival Boston
- Winner, Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature, 2nd Runner Up, Woods Hole Film Festival
Filmed over seven years with rare access inside America’s largest and most notorious maximum‑security prison, Leaving Angola is a documentary film that follows Justin Singleton — a man serving life without parole — as he forms a powerful bond with Derek Moss, a young father offered early release through a pioneering re‑entry program at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola.
Nobody ever tells you when you’re signing up
Derek Moss
for Re-Entry that there are a couple of lifers you’re going to spend two years with and by the time you leave, you’re going to hate to leave them.
It’s a hopeless place. It’s built to be hopeless…
Kelly Garrett
but he has a way of portraying that hope for others.
The two most important days in a person’s life
Justin Singleton
is the day they were born,
and the day they found out why.
