Gangster Girls

This is nicely made and will hopefully contribute to a change in preconceptions about women in prison. The filmmakers successfully use makeup and theatrical performance to create an empowering space for the "gangster girls" to tell their stories. I felt able to engage with the circumstances and contexts of the crimes the girls had committed but also saw their burgeoning development of agency through collective work in the prison theatre group. If this had been shot like many docs (with the usual banal techniques for hiding participants' identities), I doubt it could have presented the human side of these stories as effectively or as respectfully.