U.K.-based charity Causeway recently partnered with award-winning Bristol-based studio CC Animation Studio to produce an animated short for the organization’s “Breaking Cycles: Building Lives” campaign that shines a spotlight on the real-life stories of people who have broken free from the cycle of crime that was holding them back from living their lives.
Causeway supports and advises over 4,500 individuals each year who are committed to breaking out of cycles of crime.
The 2D animated short, Breaking Cycles: Building Lives – The Animation tells the real-life story of a man called Dwayne Jack. Against a backdrop of childhood trauma and neglect, from six-years-old, Dwayne began committing crime. By his teen years, Dwayne was doing crack cocaine, and convicted of robbery, theft, and drug dealing. At 13-years-old, Dwayne received his first Detention Training Order, and 17 years in-and-out of prison followed.
When Dwayne, now 39, left prison in 2014 for the last time, he was committed to a …