Nickel Boys: Seeing through other eyes
“The one thing Nickel taught me was how not to die.” Nickel Boys, directed by RaMell Ross, is...
Tag: Prison
Sing Sing: Finding Yourself in Someone Else
In a world of franchise films and sci-fi epics, Sing Sing is my favourite film of 2024. And it’s...
Punishment: Redeeming the damned
Øystein Mamen, in his documentary Punishment, takes us inside a Norwegian prison and inside the...
A Look at the Oscar? Nominated Live Action Shorts
When it is time to award the best in films each year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and...
Tuesday at AFIFest 2020
AFIFest 2020 Presented by Audi has teamed up with NBC News to present the Meet the Press Film...
Clemency – A Warden’s Walls
?You want to be whole.? A couple of hours before viewing Clemency, I took in an excellent photo...
Papillon – We Know It’s Not Rehabilitation
In 1931 Paris, Henri Charri?re (nicknamed ?Papillon?, or ?Pappy? because of the butterfly tattoo...
Papillon – From Savagery to Resurrection
Perhaps that is why when he finally found that new life and wrote his autobiographical books, they became bestsellers and prompted film adaptations. The riveting story of the absolute savagery and inhumanity within that prison setting eventually shifts to a story to hope and fulfillment.
The Work – Getting Inside on the Inside
Raw emotion is the driving force in the documentary The Work. In California?s Folsom State Prison, some of the inmates take part in group therapy to try to rehabilitate themselves. Twice a year, people from outside the prison come to take part in a four-day intensive group therapy experience.
The Evil Within (and Without): The Story of God (Ep. 5)
?I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do?this I keep on doing,? the Apostle Paul says. So where does evil come from?