Film and Electronic Arts Program Presents
Brett Story: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Screening and Artist Talk
A meditation on the prison’s disappearance in the era of mass incarceration, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes unfolds as a journey through a series of ordinary places across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives: from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight the region's raging wildfires, to a congregation of chess players in Manhattan who did their time becoming masters of the game, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs. --
Brett Story is a geographer and non-fiction filmmaker based out of Toronto and New York. Her first feature- length documentary, the award-winning Land of Destiny (2010), screened internationally and was broadcast on both Canadian and American television. Her second feature-length film, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) premiered at True/False and will be broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2017. The film was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and the Best Canadian Documentary at the DOXA Documentary Festival in Vancouver. Brett has received support from Cinereach, Vital Projects Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council, and her films have screened at True/False, Oberhausen, Hot Docs, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Dok Leipzig, among other festivals. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She was the recipient of the Documentary Organization of Canada Institute’s 2014 New Visions Award and the 2016 Governor General’s Gold Medal for academic excellence, the highest honor a Canadian scholar can achieve.
For more information, call 845-758-7253, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center