It's Criminal Women Discuss Privilege, Poverty, and Injustice in America
Two worlds collide when Dartmouth College students meet with incarcerated women at a local jail in this transformational documentary about privilege, poverty, and injustice. IT'S CRIMINAL highlights the wide economic and social inequality that divides the United States and offers a unique window into how two groups of women break down barriers and learn to speak to each other.
Winner of Audience Choice for Best International Documentary at the Monterey International Film Festival. Official Selection at the Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival.
"Thoughtful and authentic." - Peter Biello, NHPR
"It's Criminal is filmmaker Signe Taylor's moving and arresting portrait of incarcerated women, privileged Dartmouth students, and what happens when they come together to write and stage a play." - Susan B. Apel, Daily UV
Running Time
78 mins
Year
2017
Kanopy ID
6059730
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