I Thought Prison Was a Silent Place
I Thought Prison Was a Silent Place
Feature Documentary
· Drama · 18 pages
Female filmmaker, Pippa Dyer, enters Sun City (SA’s most notorious & brutal prison) to teach offenders the craft of screenwriting, 2014-2018. This story documents her reunion with 6 released offenders, to find out if the program assisted their journey of transformation into the outside world, highlights their struggles reintegrating into society, pu...
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Written by
Pippa Dyer and Boitumelo Moroka
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1 Accolade
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Second Rounder,
ScreenCraft Film Fund Spring 2022
2 Writers
Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA
Having walked clean across my fathers' dining-room table at 4 years old because I was pissed off with him for somming ... truthfully ... one needed such pluck growing up in Apartheid 'sunny' SA. My writing journey started very late, after drink, drugs, illegal intercultural relationships and being 'cool' wore off. But as a mature writer ... what fa...
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