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Degrees of Freedom (2024)
Directed by Jake Ratner, Kathy Boudin, Cheryl Wilkins
“A Film About Reclaiming College at Bedford Hills Prison”
Documentary · 33m
Created by formerly incarcerated women, Degrees of Freedom chronicles the effort to restore college programming at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility after it was eliminated in the 1990s. Refusing to accept the loss of educational opportunity, the women organized to build a program and a lasting community of care that would go on to influence prison education efforts nationwide. Told by the women themselves, the film earned the Audience Award for Short Documentary at the Dances With Films Festival.
Cast
Kathy Boudin
Crew
- Director
- Jake Ratner, Kathy Boudin, Cheryl Wilkins
- Writer
- Kathy Boudin
- Producer
- Michelle Daniel Jones, Logan McBride
Details
- Release date
- 2024-12-05
- Runtime
- 33m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Women Transcending Oral History Research Project