The Quilters
The Quilters (trailer) is a short documentary about a group of men in a Missouri prison who spend 40 hours a week making birthday quilts for foster kids and kids with disabilities.
The Quilters follows the daily lives of several quilters inside the sewing room at South Central Correctional Center, a Level 5 maximum-security prison in a small town two hours south of St. Louis, MO. From design to completion, the men reveal their struggles, triumphs, and sense of pride in creating something beautiful in this windowless, sacred space deep within the prison walls.
The Quilters is now available to watch on Netflix.
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Beautiful and heartbreaking. Thanks for sharing.
short docs might be my favorite aspect of NF, also highly recommend "The Only Girl in the Orchestra"
The needle is mightier than the sword. I too am wrapping myself in Short Docs. Also see any and all about the Quilts of Gees Bend: The National Endowment for the Arts (www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2015/quilts-gees-bend-slideshow) and the PBS doc (www.pbs.org/video/alabama-public-television-documentaries-quiltmakers-of-gees-bend/).
Add this one to the list too! Such extraordinary artists.
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