The Farm: Angola, USA
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Music director Curtis Lundy Duration | 7.8/10 IMDb Genre Documentary Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Liz GarbusWilbert RideauJonathan Stack Release date 1998 Writer Bob Harris (investigative reports) Cast Similar movies Related Liz Garbus movies |
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The Farm: Angola, USA is a 1998 award-winning documentary set in the notorious and largest American maximum-security prison Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. Loosely based on articles published in Life Sentences, drawn from the prison magazine, The Angolite , the film was directed and produced by Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus. Wilbert Rideau, a life prisoner who had been editor of the magazine since 1975, also participated in direction and was credited on the film.
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The film follows the lives of six prison inmates, including Rideau, who tell their own stories of life, death, and survival in a world that few manage to leave. It was filmed during the early years of the long tenure of Warden Burl Cain (1995-2016), who is credited with reducing violence at the prison and establishing many programs to support rehabilitation of the men.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It won an Emmy Award, the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize, and both the New York and the Los Angeles Film Critics awards for Best Documentary of ‘98.

Years later, Stack followed up with the documentary The Farm: 10 Down (2009), exploring the lives of the survivors of this group 10 years later. One man had been executed and one had died during the making of the first film. Ten years later, three men had gained freedom; two of the first six remained in prison.

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