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Released
2005 · FILM

Troop 1500

An innovative program brings Girl Scouts together with their inmate mothers.

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Runtime
68 min
Documentary

Synopsis

Their mothers may be convicted thieves, murderers and drug dealers, but the girls of Troop 1500 want to be doctors, social workers and marine biologists. With meetings once a month at Hilltop Prison in Gatesville, Texas, this innovative Girl Scout program brings daughters together with their inmate mothers, offering them a chance to rebuild their broken relationships. Intimately involved with the troop for several years, the directors (Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein) took their cameras far beyond meetings to explore the painful context of broken families. Powerful insight comes from interviews shot by the girls themselves, which reveal their conflicted feelings of anger and joy, abandonment and intimacy-as well as the deep influence their mothers still have on them.

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Principal cast & crew: 24

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Edited by Lillian BensonShot by Shane F KellyScored by Mark Addison

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