First Tuesday Film Festival - Girls on the Wall
Tuesday, December 05, 2023
07:00pm : 09:30pm
First Tuesday Social Justice Film Festival Presents:
Girls on the Wall
Directed & Produced by Heather Ross
An Award Winning Documentary:
2009 Chicago International Film Festival - Special Mention Jury Award
2010 Bermuda International Film Festival - Best Documentary
2010 Chicago/Midwest Emmys - Best Documentary of Current Significance Emmy
The teenage girls of Warrenville Prison get a shot at redemption in a most unlikely form: a musical based on their lives. As three fascinating girls write and stage their play, they're compelled to re-live their crimes, reclaim their humanity and take a first step toward breaking free of the prison system.
Heather Ross is an Emmy-winning writer & director whose work has appeared on HBO, CNN, Apple TV, Netflix and others. Her film "For Madmen Only" (Hulu), a sly comedy/doc feature starring Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, and Jason Sudeikis, premiered at SXSW, and was named "a streaming gem" by the New York Times. Her first feature, "Girls on the Wall", about a group of teenage girls in max-security prison who put on a musical about their crimes, garnered an Emmy.
Additional details can be found on the ITVS website:
https://itvs.org/films/girls-on-the-wall/
You can watch it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9QsEj3KPAo