Omar & Pete

Director Tod Lending helms this documentary film about two jailbirds who have spent the best part of 30 years in and out of prison for various offences. But as they are both released for what they hope will be the final time, Omar and Pete find remarkably different fortunes in the outside world. One plunges headlong into a devastating drug addiction while the other finds salvation in charity work, leading to markedly different experiences for the two men. In the process, Lending manages to capture two strikingly opposite products of the jail system, highlighting how similar characters on the inside may not find they have so much in common on the outside.