Filmed over eight years, Granik's five-part series follows Coss Mar...
Filmed over eight years, Granik's five-part series follows Coss Marte, the formerly incarcerated founder of Conbody, a Lower East Side gym with a unique social purpose: to employ formerly incarcerated people like himself in an attempt to combat the high rate of recidivism. As Marte wages an uphill battle against the stigma of incarceration and the realities of a relentlessly gentrifying city wh...
Filmed over eight years, Granik's five-part series follows Coss Marte, the formerly incarcerated founder of Conbody, a Lower East Side gym with a unique social purpose: to employ formerly incarcerated people like himself in an attempt to combat the high rate of recidivism. As Marte wages an uphill battle against the stigma of incarceration and the realities of a relentlessly gentrifying city where second chances are hard to come by, what emerges is both an inspiring portrait of a man on a mission and a powerful examination of a system that continues to punish people even after they have served their time.