Producer: Signe Taylor

In Development

Telling My Story: A Documentary will be a one-hour film about Ivy League students and female prison inmates working together to write and perform an original play that gives voice to one of our society’s most silenced and invisible populations, women in prison. By documenting the collaboration between students enrolled in an experimental course at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and inmates from the women’s section of Sullivan County House of Corrections in nearby Claremont, New Hampshire, Telling My Story: A Documentary will provide a riveting first-hand exploration of class, racism, poverty, addiction, mental illness and incarceration.

In 2009, the United States incarcerated more people per capita than any other nation in the world and women’s rates of incarceration increased at nearly double the rate of men’s. Given these overwhelming statistics, it’s vital that Telling My Story: A Documentary is created and distributed to as many viewers as possible in order to bring a human dimension to the pressing question of prison reform. Director Signe Taylor is seeking support for this timely and important work.