Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A new episodic documentary from Oscar-nominated director Debra Granik — premiering exclusively on the Criterion Channel on May 1.
Filmed over eight years, Granik's five-part series follows Coss Marte, the formerly incarcerated founder of Conbody, a Lower East Side gym with a unique social purpose: to employ formerly incarcerated people like himself in an attempt to combat the high rate of recidivism. As Marte wages an uphill battle against the stigma of incarceration and the realities of a relentlessly gentrifying city where second chances are hard to come by, what emerges is both an inspiring portrait of a man on a mission and a powerful examination of a system that continues to punish people even after they have served their time.
A new episodic documentary from Oscar-nominated director Debra Granik — premiering exclusively on the Criterion Channel on May 1.
Filmed over eight years, Granik's five-part series follows Coss Marte, the formerly incarcerated founder of Conbody, a Lower East Side gym with a unique social purpose: to employ formerly incarcerated people like himself in an attempt to combat the high rate of recidivism. As Marte wages an uphill battle against the stigma of incarceration and the realities of a relentlessly gentrifying city where second chances are hard to come by, what emerges is both an inspiring portrait of a man on a mission and a powerful examination of a system that continues to punish people even after they have served their time.
