Holloway + Filmmaker Q&A & Panel 12A

"★★★★★ – hugely powerful" – Financial Times

"★★★★ – collaborative documentary feels like essential viewing for policymakers" – Guardian

Six women return to the now abandoned Holloway Prison to take part in a women’s circle. Sharing some of the most intimate experiences of their lives, they each unravel what led them to prison, building an eye-opening portrait of failing systems and trauma, while discovering their extraordinary capacity to heal through sisterhood.

Directed by BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Daisy-May Hudson (Lollipop) and EMMY nominated Sophie Compton, this deeply moving and transformational film premiered at the BFI London Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary.

The film will be followed by a Q&A with producer Alice Hughes and panel discussion led by DMU Associate Professor Dr. Victoria Knight.

The panel will include Lucy Baldwin, Honorary Fellow in Sociology at Durham University who contributed to the film, and John Lewis, coordinator at The Ebb, a local support group for the families of prisoners and young offenders.