A collaborative work filmed as part of my first year of study at Christ Church College (now Canterbury Christ Church University).
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Documentary sample of work by The Downs Brothers. In July & August of 2005 Alex Downs and McPherson Downs were invited behind the walls of Angola Prison in Louisiana to tell the redemptive stories of Prisoners who found spiritual healing while serving life terms for murder, armed robbery and abduction. The Downs’ were commissioned by Norm Mintle and the Brooklyn Tabernacle Church to co-direct, edit and post produce a documentary about prisoners who have undergone conversion at the prisons bible college. During post production of the doucmentary, Mr. Mintle and the Church asked Alex to edit and post produce and mix the concert video of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir which performed at Angola. Angola State Prison is a strange place. At times looking more like a state park with 5 college campus’ spread among an 18000 acre working farm, some of Louisiana’s most notorious felons are housed here, 85% of which will die behind bars. A controversial bible college funded by conservative Christians is housed here and offers the prisoner willing to surrender himself to Christ the opportunity to educate himself and earn freedoms inside the prison to help other men through Christian principals. The grounds of Angola are steeped in blood and ghosts. The Prison was built on an old slave-breeding plantation that became the first for-profit prison in the nation after the abolition of slavery. Once considered America’s bloodiest penitentiary, Angola underwent its religious makeover in 1995 …