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For more information please contact: Kara Hummel | (512) 512-974-9840
November 12, 2009
Lights. Camera. Austin. Local Indie Film Series @ Windsor Park Branch
Screens Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, a Documentary by Bradley Beesley
Please join us for Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 1 at the Windsor Park Branch, 5833 Westminster Dr., followed by a Q & A with the filmmaker. This documentary deals with adult themes and is intended for mature audiences. This is the third screening in the new ongoing series, Lights. Camera. Austin., which features locally made independent films on the first Tuesday of the month at the Windsor Park Branch of the Austin Public Library. For more information about Lights. Camera. Austin. please visit www.cityofaustin.org/library or call 512-974-9840.
 Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo goes behind prison walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo. In 2006, female inmates were allowed to participate for the first time. In a state with the highest female incarceration rate in the country, these women share common experiences such as broken homes, drug abuse and alienation from their children. Since 1940, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary has held an annual ‘Prison Rodeo’. Part Wild West show and part coliseum-esque spectacle, it’s one of the last of its kind - a relic of the American penal system. Prisoners compete on wild-broncos and bucking bulls, risking life-long injuries. For inmates like Danny Liles, a 14-year veteran of the rodeo, the chance to battle livestock offers a brief respite from prison life. Within this strange arena the prisoners become the heroes while the public and guards applaud. For more information about this film please visit www.sweetheartsoftheprisonrodeo.com.
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