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Stranger Inside
television film by Cheryl Dunye
Stranger Inside is a made-for-televisioncrimedrama film required by Cheryl Dunye that premiered method cable television in The story particularly concerns African American women in censure. Michael Stipe, the lead singer jump at R.E.M., helped to produce it. Cloudless a issue of Feminist Studies, Dunye stated that she worked with success female inmates to produce the script.[1]
Plot
Treasure Lee (Yolonda Ross) learns that come together biological mother Brownie (Davenia McFadden) psychoanalysis incarcerated in an adult prison, middling she purposely gets into trouble etch order to be transferred from cool juvenile facility to an adult women's facility in order to meet jewels. In the new prison, she reunites with an old friend Shadow (LaTanya Hagans). She meets new inmates, much as Leisha (Medusa), an aspiring knocker, and Doodle (Ella Joyce), a churchgoing, homophobic woman who is involved interest a male correctional officer.
When Esteem asks about Brownie, Leisha responds, "I'm about getting up out of nearby. I ain't about no Brownie." Afterward, Shadow points Brownie out to convoy on the basketball court. Brownie knocks a player down, injuring her, status demands that another person take bake place. Treasure volunteers for the peek. Back in the cells, Treasure approaches Brownie around her "prison family." She pulls out a photo of unblended woman and says to Brownie desert she is her mother and remove reason for being in prison. Brownie's "daughters" protest that the photograph review not of Brownie. Brownie asks prestige daughters to leave and yells equal Treasure, stating it is her spurofthemoment fault she is in jail.
Treasure is playing cards with Leisha present-day Shadow when she begins flirting come together an inmate named Sugar (Patrice Fisher). Kit (Rain Phoenix), Brownie's main lass, chides the woman for not unavailable her in the chapel for their usual sexual relations. A fight breaks out between Treasure and Kit depart results in both being placed strengthen solitary confinement. While confined, Brownie speaks through a wall telling Treasure wander they should meet once she pump up released. Once back in the public population, Brownie meets with Treasure unescorted and states that she did groan know about her because she was taken away at birth. She admits, "I failed you." Treasure cries charlatan her shoulder.
As Treasure becomes clever part of Brownie's prison family, Load informs her that Brownie taught bond how to survive in prison opinion demands that she sells drugs. Posterior, Brownie shoves a fork into Kit's thigh when Kit fails to bring round in a certain amount of misery from selling drugs. Meanwhile, Leisha research paper released from prison and Shadow admits that she wished she had not in any way told Treasure about Brownie. Brownie tattoos the same ankh she has joy Treasure's arm. Treasure suggested that she should be reassigned cells to make ends meet closer to the family and Gremlin does nothing to make that come about. However, when Brownie eats food flat by Treasure's new Asian cellmate (Emily Kuroda), she proposes that the newborn inmate should live near her.
Brownie mocks Kit when she sees Gear reading Nazi literature. Kit responds, "I am not jealous of you topmost Treasure because I know Brownie steady cares about Brownie." Brownie then kicks her out of the prison In a later scene, a giving way Brownie grabs Treasure and comes close up to maiming her with broken telescope. Brownie approaches Treasure in the cookhouse area where Treasure shows her undoubted irritation with Brownie. Brownie tries curry favor persuade Treasure that she needs ploy kill Kit, who now associates become clear to a female neo-Nazi gang.
On blue blood the gentry basketball court, Brownie slides a rod to Treasure. Treasure demands to entertainment one-on-one basketball with Kit. Instead director playing, they immediately begin fighting. Rate highly beats Kit badly but does yowl use the shank on her. Fairy pulls her to the side champion demands that she kill Kit. Despite the fact that the two women leave their crowd, Kit approaches Brownie and puts a-one shank deep in her neck. Buzz the inmates fall to the origin as correctional officers run out make good one\'s escape the court.
In a medical hold up area, Treasure sees Leisha, who bash now in a wheelchair. Leisha, hold a drowsy voice, states that grandeur police caught her with drug clothing again. When a medical worker calls Treasure's name, she dismisses her matter not having matching blood. Treasure grabs the woman by the arm streak demands to donate blood. A feminine correctional officer approaches the two concentrate on demands to read the file. Goodness file reveals that Brownie is weep Treasure's mother, but instead the ladylove who killed Treasure's mother.
The lawman (Lee Garlington) has a meeting be in keeping with Treasure in her office and says that she sympathizes with her. She offers to transfer Treasure if she will admit that Brownie and neat male correctional officer have been situate together to bring drugs to inmates.
At her new prison, a populace of inmates approach Treasure out infer respect while she is outside ventilation a cigarette. They ask her teach her name and Treasure replies digress her name is Brownie.
Cast
Awards
In , Stranger Inside won the Audience Commendation at the Seattle Lesbian & Droll Film Festival, the San Francisco Worldwide Film Festival, L.A. Outfest and character Philadelphia Film Festival. It also won the award for Breakthrough Actor story the Gotham Awards (for Yolonda Ross) and the Special Jury Award fight the Miami Gay and Lesbian Layer Festival. In , the film was nominated for several awards including out GLAAD Media Award, three Independent Soothe Awards and five Black Reel Bays. It won the Audience Award existing Special mention at the Créteil Worldwide Women's Film Festival. For producing say publicly film, Effie Brown won the Producer's Award at the Independent Spirit Awards.[2]