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Kim Dadou Brown received a 17-year prison sentence for shooting and killing her boyfriend after he climbed on top of her and said he was going to kill her in 1991. Brown had been out of prison for about seven years when Natalie Pattillo, an abuse survivor and advocate who had also lost her sister Jennifer to domestic violence, contacted her. As a reporter, Pattillo has devoted her career to focusing on telling the stories of domestic violence survivors who had been criminalized for defending themselves. Pattillo asked if she could include Brown's story in her master's thesis, then shared her thesis with a friend, fellow journalist and filmmaker Daniel A. Nelson. Blown away by the story, Nelson suggested he and Pattillo turn her thesis and Brown's story into a documentary. "And So I Stayed" follows not just Brown but also two other women incarcerated for defending themselves, Tanisha Davis and Nicole "Nikki" Addimando. The goal of "And So I Stayed" is to shine a light on the bias of the justice system against women, especially women of color.
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