What I want my words to do to you
By: Borrowed Light Productions ; producers, Madeleine Gavin, Gary Sunshine ; writer, Gary Sunshine ; directors, Madeleine Gavin, Judith Katz, Gary Sunshine
Contributors: Alice, Mary, 1941-; Close, Glenn, 1947-; Tomei, Marisa; Perez, Rosie; Ensler, Eve, 1953-; Goodman, Hazelle; Gibson, Paul; Taylor, Dyanna; Borrowed Light Productions; PBS Home Video
Edition: Standard version.
Publisher: PBS Home Video; Distributed by Warner Home Video
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Alexandria, VA]; Burbank, CA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Prisoners' writings, American; Women prisoners; Rehabilitation; Workshops (Adult education); Female offenders; Violent offenders; Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (N.Y.). Writing Workshop; Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (N.Y.).
Description: If you committed a violent crime, would it be possible to redeem yourself? Women inmates at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women try to answer this question. In writing workshops, the women in the group, including high-profile convicts like Kathy Boudin and Judy Clark, work through a series of writing exercises and discussions. The deeply personal writings mix with the humorous and the tragic, profoundly showing the power of art in the service of healing.
Notes: "PBS DVD gold".

Originally released as a documentary film in 2002.

Standard version presented in a letterbox format preserving the aspect ratio of its original television exhibition.

Special features: additional scenes: full performances by the actors - not included in the film; interview with Eve Ensler and Judith Katz.

Cinematographer, Paul Gibson, Dyanna Taylor ; editor, Madeleine Gavin.

Mary Alice, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez, Eve Ensler, Hazelle Goodman.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, Region 1; Dolby Digital surround stereo, single-sided, NTSC.

Closed-captioned.

Audience Award for Best Documentary, 2003 Provincetown International Film Festival.

2003 Official Selection International Documentary Competition AFI.

Freedom of Expression Award, 2003 Sundance Film Festival.