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Production
2023

The Strike

IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Grantee

  • headshot of JoeBill Muñoz wearing an olive green shirt
    JoeBill Muñoz, Director
  • headshot of Lucas Guilkey wearing a blue shirt and black glasses
    Lucas Guilkey, Director
A wide angle shot of a Latino man seated in a living room surrounded by documentary interview equipment.

About the Project

A generation of California men endure decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launch a protest to regain their freedom.

Project Team

    headshot of JoeBill Muñoz wearing an olive green shirt

    JoeBill Muñoz

    JoeBill Muñoz (Director/Producer) is a Mexican-American director and producer. He’s recently produced several television series for Left/Right Media and The New York Times, and is currently directing and producing an independent feature documentary about solitary confinement in California prisons. His most recent film, Maletero, was commissioned by ITVS and premiered on PBS in 2023. As a producer, he’s worked on The Circus (Showtime), The New York Times Presents (Hulu), and The Grab (TIFF 2022), a feature documentary directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite in collaboration with Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting. His independent work has been supported by the Sundance Documentary Fund, Firelight Media, ITVS, SFFILM, the Reva and David Logan Foundation, and others. Originally from Houston, Texas, he currently resides in New York City.

    headshot of Lucas Guilkey wearing a blue shirt and black glasses

    Lucas Guilkey

    Lucas Guilkey (Director/Producer) is an award-winning documentary film producer and journalist based in Oakland, California. He is currently directing and producing a feature documentary about solitary confinement in California prisons, developed in the SFFILM FilmHouse residency and the UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program. He recently served as story producer on Aftershock, a feature documentary about the US maternal health crisis that premiered at Sundance in 2022 and is streaming on Hulu/Disney+. His directorial debut, What Happened to Dujuan Armstrong?, a short documentary about the coverup of a young man’s death in county jail, won best documentary at the BAFTA Student Film Awards and was nominated for best documentary short at the Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA). He is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Wesleyan University.