Feature: “The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.”(1998) 93 min.
Directed by Jonathan Stack, Liz Garbus and Wilbert Rideau

Winner of the 1998 Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Documentary
Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize

A moving portrayal of racism, religion, aging, and death at
Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola the largest prison in the
US from which 85% of the prisoners will never leave. The film
makes explicit the journey from plantation to prison economy. Focusing on
the rites of passage of six men over the course of one year, the film
articulates each man’s struggle to sustain hope and achieve ever-elusive
freedom. In their mirrored circumstances, each arrival, departure and defeat
becomes a chilling confirmation of
life’s bitter inevitability.

This series to benefit the Prison Book Program, a Boston-based non-profit
organization, which has been sending free books to prisoners for 25 years.
Prisoners write to us with their book requests on all topics. We send books
to almost all prisons in the United States. We wish to encourage
self-education and literacy among prisoners.

Prison Book Program
110 Arlington St.
Boston, MA 02116
617.423.3298
prisonbookprogram@hotmail.com

4 Walls Film Series
Production: Marjy Bangs fruitcat@hotmail.com