Growing Hope is an extension of another WDR (West German Radio) documentary, Most Wanted Poets. While visiting prison classes with Kyes Stevens, the head of the education program, I was moved by many of the talks with both students and teachers, and found them to be a valuable resource for those interested in learning about how education and art are key to human survival, to humanness itself.

I am forever grateful to Kyes Stevens for organising my visit in Alabama and for giving me the opportunity to witness her work first hand.