A day full of films and workshops from the UK and around the world that will tap into the visible and invisible voices behind bars.

Films

12 am - I Won't Drown on that Levee and You Ain't Gonna' Break my Back,  (USA , 2006, 30 minutes) by Ashley Hunt
This documentary analyses the use of prison as an emergency response tool during the infuriating state response in the Katrina Hurricane in New Orleans .

Life Inside Out, (USA, 2005, 72 minutes) by Sarah Zammit
This insightful documentary goes inside the walls of Grand Valley Institution, one of five federal prisons for women in Canada. Life Inside Out features three unforgettable women, doing time in an arbitrary system designed to frustrate and baffle.

Inside Film, made by Wandsworth HMP prisoners
The first film project produced and directed by UK prisoners.

Imprisonment in Great Britain (UK, 2003, 17min) by Martin Krenn and Oliver Ressler
The film features ex-prisoner and activist, Mark Barnsley, talking about the privitasation of British prisons and ways of struggling against that system while imprisoned.

H3 (87min, Ireland, 2001) by Les Blair

Written by Laurence McKeown, former volunteer in the Provisional IRA. The film is set in the H-Blocks of the Maze Prison in the North of Ireland and explpres the events leading up to the 1981 Irish hunger strike and the subsequent developments in the prisoners' struggle for Prisoner of War status. H3 has won 2 film awards and is unreleased.

Workshops

Criminal Injustice: The other side of death row in the USA. A talk by Trish Abbot, social activist and campaigner against the death penalty in Philadelphia, USA.

Mark Barnsley will facilitate a discussion about how we can support prisoners in our communities and practical ways of resisting the expanding prison-industrial complex.

Campaign against Prison Slavery will share their insights into the exploitative prison labour conditions in UK prisons as well as talk about their campaign.

Plus!

A close look at Newcastle City Center historical prisons or a walk around the prison burial grounds at the back of the Star and Shadow Cinema…

EVENING SOCIAL

8.30 pm Neville Clay North East’s renowned musician & song-writer shares songs made with the women in Low Newton prison, Durham.

10:30pm: Verbal Terrorists explosive and opinionated lyrics from Newcastle’s finest MC’s.!

Join us for films and discussions at 12pm and evening social at 8.30pm.

 

Price for the day: £4 (£3) Ex-prisoners and asylum seekers free. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.