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Belly of the Beast (2020)
Directed by Erika Cohn
Documentary, Drama · 1h 22m
When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, they take to the courtroom to wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With a growing team of investigators inside prison working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes - from dangerously inadequate health care to sexual assault to coercive sterilizations - primarily targeting women of color. But no one believes them. This shocking legal drama captured over seven years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated women, demanding our attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States.
Cast
Corey Johnson
Crew
- Director
- Erika Cohn
- Director of Photography
- Clare Major, Bianca Cline
- Editor
- Tchavdar Georgiev, Jean Kawahara
- Producer
- Erika Cohn, Angela Tucker, Christen Hepuakoamana'a Marquez, Nicole Docta
Details
- Release date
- 2020-06-11
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- ITVS, Idlewild Films, Tribeca Film Institute, Fork Films, Chicken & Egg Films, Black Public Media, Independent Lens, Women Make Movies