P4W: Prison for Women
Janis Cole and Holly Dale
1981, 82:00 minutes, colour, English (available with English or French subtitles)
TAPECODE 2162.03
A key work by filmmaking team Janis Cole and Holly Dale, P4W: Prison for Women is the only film ever made inside Kingston's notorious maximum-security prison before it was closed in 2000. P4W is a shattering look at love and isolation in the most desperate of places. The filmmakers' approach results in a gripping and dignified story, both personal and political.
"In a powerfully ambiguous piece of filmmaking, they invite their audience to think about the cycle of crime, the conditions that lead to it, and a system that hardly seems part of the solution." - Matthew Hays
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Critical Writing
by . North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980, 2002. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002.