May22

the quilters.

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THE QUILTERS, an award-winning short documentary, now showing on Netflix, follows the daily lives of several men, spending most of its screen time inside the sewing room at South Central Correctional Center, a Level 5 maximum security prison in a small town near St. Louis.

As they follow several quilts from design to completion, audiences will come to know these men, witnessing their struggles, triumphs, and sense of pride as they create something beautiful in this windowless, sacred space, deep within the prison walls.

The camera follows the quilters up close as they work individually on their creations and also captures the power of this group as a collective, a well-oiled, collaborative machine that hums along like the sewing machines in front of which each man sits.

The craft of quilting has been carefully and beautifully shot, with tight focus on the men’s hands, the sewing machines, the textures and colors of the fabrics, and the creative design of each quilt which is personalized for a foster child and gifted to them for their birthday.

This short film will move your soul. 

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‘people find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.’

-Khaled Hosseini

*Khaled Hosseini was born in  Afghanistan,  moved to the United States in 1980, and is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and, And the Mountains Echoed.

 

 

 

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credits: Netflix, Youtube

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  2. This looks like something worthwhile for prisoners to be doing, while also giving them time to think about those out in society who will receive their work. So much better than sewing mailbags or making car number plates.
    Best wishes, Pete.

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    • if you get the chance, watch it, I can see you really taking this to heart. it is so good for them and for the people who benefit from their work

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  27. I already watched this, excellent! I got a kick out of the one man that said it has to be ripped out because it wasn’t right. My husband watched it with me and the first thing I said to him was “Do you know how sharp the rotary cutter is?” I am a quilter and until I watched the full in it’s entirety, I thought they were crazy.

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