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) |
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In English |
Subject |
Prisoners -- Education -- Texas
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Prisoners -- Education
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Texas
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Genre/Form |
documentary film.
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Feature films
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Documentary films
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Short films
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Documentary films.
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Short films.
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Feature films.
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Documentaires.
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Courts métrages.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Brims, Michael, filmmaker
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