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This ground-breaking, six-part documentary series follows a group of inmates at California’s San Quentin State Prison as they learn the basics of filmmaking. For the first time, inmates are permitted to use video cameras within penitentiary walls, providing an unprecedented view at life on the inside through the eyes of the men who live there.

In this excerpt, inmate Ernesto Castellanos is counseled by his fellow classmates.

NETWORK
Discovery Channel

DIRECTOR
Bruce Sinofsky

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