Arts & Entertainment
Film and Discussion: Mothers of Bedford at the Brooklyn Museum.
The film follows the lives of five women and their battles to care for their children and for self-improvement while incarcerated.
Mothers of Bedford (Jenifer McShane, 2010, 93 min.) features the unique and progressive programs of the Children’s Center at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. The film follows the lives of five women and their battles to care for their children and for self-improvement under the difficult condition of incarceration. The screening is followed by a talk between Jenifer McShane, the film’s director, and Bobby Blanchard, social justice advocate and former Director of the Children’s Center. Part of the ongoing Sackler Center series “States of Denial: The Illegal Incarceration of Women, Children, and People of Color.”
Free with Museum admission.
Film will be shown in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd floor.
