Director
Pete Quandt
Producers
Hannah Whisenant, Garson Ormiston
Editor
Chris Kelley
Cinematographers
Pete Quandt, Leroy Farrell
Filmed over a single afternoon, Weekend Visits focuses on the relationships between incarcerated parents and their children. Jessi, a 29-year-old mother from rural Virginia has spent the past seven years in prison. Her child, Ryleigh, is nine and has few memories of life before Jessi was incarcerated. The film quietly observes this brief moment in their lives as they spend a rare day together at an extended visitation house, playing games, cooking meals, and trying their best to pretend everything is normal.
Raised in rural upstate New York, Pete is a multidisciplinary director and cinematographer. He’s drawn to working-class communities and stories nationwide, focusing on the mass incarceration system. His first short film, Tuesday Afternoon, premiered at SFFILM and was programmed as a New York Times Op-Docs. His cinematography has been shown at Cannes, Sundance, MOMA, and SXSW.
