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900 women
- Title
- 900 women [videorecording] / Gabriel Films ; director, Laleh Khadivi ; producer, Jonathan Stack.
- Portion of title
- Nine hundred women
- Format
- DVD, Videodisc
- Published/Produced
- New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 2000.
- Description
- 1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Performer
- Narrator, Susan Sarandon.
- Credits
- Cinematography, Alejandro Smith ; editor, Dena Mermelstein ; music, Wendy Blackstone.
- System details
- DVD-R.
- Summary
- "The Louisiana Correctional Institute is located in the swamps of southern Louisiana in the small town of St. Gabriel. Built in 1970, it houses the state's most dangerous female prisoners and often exceeds its population capacity of 900. Seventy-five percent of these women are mothers and one fourth are serving sentences of fifteen years or more. The prison compound has a surreal quality; there are no searchlight-capped towers or barbed wire fences. Filmmaker Khadivi delivers a portrait of life in this deceptively peaceful atmosphere which is filled with stories of life on the streets, abuse, freedom, childbirth and motherhood. Six women, a grandmother, a young high school student, a pregnant woman, a recovering heroin addict, a prison guard, and the only woman on death row, share their frustrations and hopes"--Women Make Movies website
- Notes
- This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives. Disc label reads 17 minutes.
- Subject headings
- Documentary films--United States. Women prisoners--Louisiana--St. Gabriel. Reformatories for women--Louisiana--St. Gabriel.
- Other contributors
- Khadivi, Laleh. Sarandon, Susan, 1946- Stack, Jonathan. Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women. Gabriel Films. Women Make Movies (Firm)