Coming Home

A short documentary—independently produced in conjunction with the film’s participants—about Onquette Woodyard, her son (ESPN journalist Eric Woodyard), and their family’s decades long fight to free her father, Horace Peterson, wrongfully imprisoned for 50+ years due to a legal loophole.

Official Selection:

2025 San Quentin Film Festival
2025 Activists Without Borders Film Festival (Honorary Award for Efforts in Social Filmmaking)

Select Press:

“New documentary follows Flint man's prison journey, fight for freedom” | Flint Beat
“Documentary screening pushes for release of Flint man imprisoned for over 50 years” | WNEM
“‘Coming Home,’ a documentary turned campaign, is screened in Flint” | MLive
“Michigan man imprisoned for over 50 years maintains innocence, new documentary tells his story” | MLive

Credits:

Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Sriya Sarkar
Associate Producer: Devin Southard
Editor: Serena Ajbani
Color: Tam Le / Sodalite Color
Music: Camilla Sims
Sound: Vandana Ramakrishna
Animation: Notion of Motion
Motion Graphics: Joyzel Acevedo