Prison Reform Film Festival comes to Rice Cinema April 8-10

Movies examining a wide range of incarceration-related issues will be featured at the Prison Reform Film Festival 2011 at Rice Media Center April 8-10.

Rice Cinema will focus on documentaries, including “Death Row,” a 1979 black-and-white classic about the old death row; “Meeting With a Killer,” about a Houston-area woman’s encounter with her daughter’s murderer; “Troop 1500,” on Girl Scouts with mothers in prison; “Torture: America’s Brutal Prisons,” a British report; “The Dhamma Brothers,” about a meditation retreat in a tough southern prison; and two short pieces by documentarian Edgar Barens about an inevitable result of long sentences: prison hospices.

The festival is hosted by KPFT-FM’s “Prison Show” and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Tickets for the festival are available for a suggested donation of $7. For more information, visit www.theprisonshow.org/festival.html or ricecinema.rice.edu or call 713-348-4853.