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Over a decade ago, filmmaker Mimi Chakarova began following a cohort of young people trying to turn their lives around by becoming firefighters and medics through Bay EMT , a free training program.

The result of that relationship-building, In the Red , shares their stories and the way they intersect with sweeping social issues like crime, public health, poverty, and inequity in a documentary that has the intimacy of a home video.

Bay EMT’s cadets, many of whom were involved with the juvenile justice system, have firsthand experience with the problems the

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