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Guest house / directed and produced by Hannah Dweck and Yael Luttwak ; Dweck Productions.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women prisoners--United States.
- Women prisoners.
- Drug addiction.
- Rehabilitation.
- Substance abuse--Rehabilitation.
- Substance abuse.
- Prisoners--Deinstitutionalization.
- United States.
- Prisoners--Deinstitutionalization--United States.
- Prisoners.
- Halfway houses--United States.
- Halfway houses.
- Drug addiction--Rehabilitation.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (1 hr., 13 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Pasadena, California] : [Distributed by] GOOD DOCS, [2021]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- This film documents the lives of three previously incarcerated women living in a re-entry home. Through their stories of trauma, relapse and survival, the film exposes the challenges of reintegrating from the prison system while recovering from addiction and battling recidivism. In this pivotal moment of transition, the women draw support from staff and one another to rekindle hope and work towards rehabilitation. By humanizing addiction, the film reframes the life choices that led them into a broken criminal justice system and challenges the social stigma attached to addicts and offenders. In doing so, it makes the case for what is needed to achieve lasting recovery: treatment programs, community support and accountability.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Andy Schwartz ; edited by Greg O'Toole and Carol Slatkin ; music by Jeremy Bullock.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Dweck Productions, ©2019.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 15, 2021).
- Publisher Number:
- gd-gho Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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