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Title School me! : college for prisoners / a film by Michael Brims
Published United States : Privately Published, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (8 min.)
Summary The University of Houston Clear Lake has a long-standing presence in a South Texas Prison, the Ramsey Unit. Inmates at this unit are able to finish both BA and MA degrees, granted by UHCL. In 2015 and 2016 I was able to follow one of the instructors, Shrerekha Subramanian, to the unit to film their semester final exams. At the time, the resulting videos were presented at a conference at the university and in May 2018, I turned them into a short-form documentary and a promotional video for the school. I am the director, cameraman and editor on both films. This film is unique in its subject matter. I do not know of any other short documentary film about university-level teaching in the U.S. prison system. Through a rare opportunity of access with a camera to a prison unit, this is not only a film "about" the subject at hand, it also gives the inmates a rare opportunity to make their voices heard
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed October 10, 2018)
In English
Subject Prisoners -- Education -- Texas
Prisoners -- Education
Texas
Genre/Form documentary film.
Feature films
Documentary films
Short films
Documentary films.
Short films.
Feature films.
Documentaires.
Courts métrages.
Form Streaming video
Author Brims, Michael, filmmaker