College Behind Bars Screening and Conversation with Director Lynn Novick
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Online Event
9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
OSUN member the Bard Prison Initiative invites members to a virtual screening of the documentary College Behind Bars and a conversation with director Lynn Novick and Bard alumnus Jule Hall ’11, moderated by Bard Professor Myra Armstead.
College Behind Bars, a four-part documentary film series directed by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, tells the story of a small group of incarcerated men and women working to earn college degrees and turn their lives around in one of the most rigorous college-in-prison education programs in the United States—the Bard Prison Initiative.
Shot over four years in maximum and medium security prisons in New York State, the four-hour film takes viewers on a stark and intimate journey into one of the most pressing issues of our time—our failure to provide meaningful rehabilitation for the over two million Americans living behind bars. Through the lived experiences of the students and their families, this is a groundbreaking story of incarceration, injustice, race in America, and the transformative power of education. It raises questions we urgently need to address: What is prison for? Who has access to educational opportunity? Who among us is capable of academic excellence? How can we have justice without redemption?
Register to join via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822,
or visit https://bpi-bard-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yYj8ZKqsRR-aBqBRdRPBJw.
Time: 9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Location: Online Event