Tommy Franklin is a filmmaker, writer, producer, and creator of Weapon of Choice Podcast and Special Menu Productions. He’s a 2020 Sundance Short Documentary Film Fund Grantee, 2020 Kartemquin Diverse Voices in Docs Fellow, 2020 SPNN New Angle Docu Fellow, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council 2020 Next Step Awardee, a 2021 Jerome Foundation Film Production Grantee, and was a finalist for 2021’s Sundance Episodic Lab. He’s currently a mentee in the 2022 Sundance BIPOC Mentorship Program. A survivor of incarceration (born in prison and having served time in adulthood), Franklin radically reimagines power structures, focusing on criminal legal reform and Black liberation.