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Hot Docs’ ‘The Strike,’ About the Fight Against Solitary Confinement in California, Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
In 'The Strike,' directors Joebill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey chronicle a 2013 prison hunger strike that changed imprisonment policies across the U.S.
Variety has been granted exclusive access to the trailer (below) for “The Strike,” which will have its world premiere in Hot Docs Film Festival ’s Art of Resistance section. I met the families of the hunger strikers, mostly women from Los Angeles who saw themselves as the voices of their brothers, fathers, uncles and sons, and used every bit of their savings to make the 12-hour drive to Pelican Bay. Guilkey: We had built these connections with people who were (close to them), so as the men started being released from solitary and eventually from prison we were able to gain access and do those interviews.
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