Pull of Gravity

North Philadelphia PA Kev El and Andy are three men united by one struggle they are trying to defy gravity As part of the 700000 prisoners released into society every year they find themselves faced with a chilling outlook 67 of exoffenders reoffend within three years What explains this invisible force that keeps former inmates in a seemingly unending cycle of incarceration Filmed on the street over the course of two years Pull of Gravity is an intimate portrait of these three men that confronts headon the gritty details of lives cut short by poverty and drugs where dealing is seen as the only route to economic prosperity where using offers an escape from powerlessness and where prison is too often the next stop The films unfiltered lense captures its subjects as they lay bare their stories fears and tentative dreams