Erin Kenway, Producer/EP and Katherin Hervey, Director/Producer of multiple award winning documentary film "The Prison Within."

<p>Two former attorneys turned filmmakers. Meet Erin Kenway, Producer / Executive Producer and Katherin Hervey, Director / Producer of the multiple award winning hit documentary film "The Prison Within." The documentary is nominated by <a href="https://www.awardthis.com/">Film Threat Award This!</a> Katherin was the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of&nbsp;<em>Shades of Contradiction</em>, a nationally distributed arts and culture magazine dedicated to critical thinking and creative action. Katherin . She has produced, directed and art-directed short documentary and narrative films, including "The Cocktail Waitress" for KCTS/PBS broadcast. THE PRISON WITHIN, her first feature film, sprung from her work as a Los Angeles Public Defender and volunteer prison college instructor, where she worked weekly with prisoners who had committed serious acts of violence and had been sentenced to die in prison. Unredeemable in the eyes of the law, she saw the exact opposite and sought to create a film that captured the complexity of the people locked behind bars, in stark contrast to the dominant black and white depiction of victims, prisoners, and those we label as "criminals". Katherin is currently at work on a new film.</p> <p>Erin Kenway graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree with honors from University of California, Irvine, majoring in both Criminology, Law &amp; Society, and Psychology &amp; Social Behavior. She holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Seattle University School of Law, is admitted to the National Order of the Barristers, and is a certified mediator. Prior to shifting careers to focus full-time on independent filmmaking, she practiced law for over a decade primarily represented economically disadvantaged victims of domestic violence in civil dissolution and child custody cases, and also served on several committees for both the Washington State and King County Bar Associations. She was also a Global Campaign Manager for broadcast, print, digital, and social advertising campaigns for Amazon’s award-winning Brand / Mass