Straight from the Pen
Straight from the Pen (3-min. opening) from Paul Sutton on Vimeo.
Saturday, November 4, 1 PM, Ojai Art Center Theater
Sunday, November 12, 1 PM, Chaparral Auditorium
2017, Directors: Paul & Lori Sutton, Producers: Paul and Lori Sutton; 51 minutes.
Twenty-four prisoners come face to face with a dozen college students on a maximum-security prison yard. The writing that emerges is life-changing, as prisoners trade the alienation, disaffection, and violence of self-preservation for openness and honesty. Though their often-intimate collaboration, both groups find hope and humanity in a place where they expected neither.