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Daily Rec: A Decade Behind Bars: Return to the Farm

We’ve received an exclusive clip from the National Geographic Channel who tomorrow night are completing a three part series with the two-hour sequel to the 1997 Oscar nominated, Sundance winning documentary film. Today’s Daily Recommendation is: A Decade Behind Bars: Return to the Farm which airs tomorrow at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

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The old adage that two wrongs don’t make a right is something that many correctional systems in the U.S. have yet to figure out. In just about every prison in the Americas, the system is designed to punish and humiliate rather than heal and retrain. There may be some exceptions.

We’ve received an exclusive clip from the National Geographic Channel who tomorrow night are completing a three part series with the two-hour sequel to the 1997 Oscar nominated, Sundance winning documentary film. Today’s Daily Recommendation is: A Decade Behind Bars: Return to the Farm which airs tomorrow at 8 p.m. ET/PT. You can watch the original film here.

In 1997, filmmaker Jonathan Stack and colleagues Liz Garbus and Wilbert Rideau teamed on “The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison” and for the last 10 years, filmmaker Jonathan Stack has continued to chronicle life and the surprising changes inside Angola, which is now an increasingly self-sustaining agricultural community.

Our exclusive clip demonstrates how prisoners are stripped from their rights, and in this case their only right is to listen when spoken to.

 

 

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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