The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Simeon Soffer |
| production | Simeon Soffer, Jonathan Stack |
| camera | Mark Miks |
| cut | Simeon Soffer |
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo is a short - documentary of Simeon Soffer in 1999. The film is about the Rodeo , which in prison Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is discharged. The participants are convicts. It is a follow-up to The Farm: Angola, USA .
background
The Angola Prison Rodeo has been held since 1967 and attracts up to 12,000 visitors. Around the actual rodeo there is a small fair and food stalls run by the Stäfling societies. If there were previously more prison rodeos in the southern states , it is the last of its kind. The rodeo takes place every weekend in October and one weekend in April. The goals of the rodeo will be rehabilitation , generating income for convict projects and increasing tourism income for nearby West Feliciana Parish . The rodeo is considered particularly dangerous as the participants are convicts who cannot train for rodeos.
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo is the sequel to the documentary The Farm: Angola, USA .
Awards and nominations
- Oscar 2000: The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo was nominated for an Oscar in 2000 for best documentary short film. The short film had to admit defeat to King Gimp by Susan Hannah Hadary and William A. Whiteford .
- IDA Award 2000: The film received the International Documentary Association Award .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lara Naughton, America's Prison Rodeo , Guernica Magazine, July 13, 2016.
- ↑ The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo on Filmstarts.de.
- ↑ Oscars 2000
- ↑ Awards for The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo on IMDb .