The Quilters (2025) is a short documentary exploring the work of a group of incarnated American men.

The men are incarcerated at the South Central Correctional Centre, a maximum-security prison in Licking, Missouri. They are taking part in the prison’s Restorative Justice Organization, a program that means they spend 40 hours a week making patchwork quilts as birthday gifts for children in foster care and those with disabilities.

“A lot of these foster kids were always told that they would never amount to anything” says one quilter in the documentary. “This is my chance to say we care.”

The men talk about the sense of purpose the documentary gives them, that the designing and sewing serves as a useful distraction from unworthy thoughts, and that often they can take up themes that were important in their family lives.