Film Screening + Director Q&A: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

Please join us for a screening of the critically-acclaimed documentary The Prison in Twelve Landscapes. This film explores how the US prison system manifests itself in our communities by looking at twelve different “landscapes” in American towns and cities. The movie is a moving, visually compelling indictment of the carceral state and its role in the perpetuation of racial injustices across the country.

The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director herself, Dr. Brett Story, led by Dehlia Umunna of the Criminal Justice Institute at HLS. The screening will begin at 7:15 in Northwest B – 103, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (see map).

NYT Critic’s Pick: “In “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” a meditation on mass incarceration in the United States, the Canadian filmmaker Brett Story arranges a series of oblique, geographical vignettes into an unsettling mural of systemic damage.”

Speaker Bios:
Brett Story is a writer and independent non-fiction filmmaker based out of Toronto and New York. She was the recipient of the Documentary Organization of Canada Institute’s 2014 New Visions Award and an alumna of the Berlinale Talents Doc Station (2014). Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Dehlia Umunna is the Deputy Director and Clinical Instructor at the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) at Harvard Law School. Ms. Umunna is teaching a course on “Mass Incarceration” this semester and also coaches students on trial advocacy skiils. Prior to joining CJI, Ms. Umunna spent seven years at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) as a trial attorney, representing clients in the most serious of felonies and serving as lead counsel in many trials.

Sponsored by the HLS Urbanists, PLAP, Defenders, DOS, ACS, and the Harvard Film Study Center.