Alfred I. duPont-Columbia and Peabody-Award winning filmmaker Lynn Novick (THE VIETNAM WAR) has directed and produced a new documentary series, COLLEGE BEHIND BARS, that reveals the transformative power of higher education through the experiences of incarcerated men and women. The four-hour series will air on WITF TV in November 2019. Distilled from nearly 400 hours of cinéma-vérité footage, the series explores the lives of a dozen incarcerated men and women as they struggle to earn degrees in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), one of the most rigorous and effective prison education programs in the country. 　　WITF will host a free preview screening of the series followed by a community conversation about the role of Education in Pennsylvania prisons at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg on Tuesday, June 4 from 5-7pm. The event will be emceed by Scott LaMar, Host and Executive Producer of WITF's Smart Talk program.

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia and Peabody-Award winning filmmaker Lynn Novick (THE VIETNAM WAR) has directed and produced a new documentary series, COLLEGE BEHIND BARS, that reveals the transformative power of higher education through the experiences of incarcerated men and women. The four-hour series will air on WITF TV in November 2019. Distilled from nearly 400 hours of cinéma-vérité footage, the series explores the lives of a dozen incarcerated men and women as they struggle to earn degrees in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), one of the most rigorous and effective prison education programs in the country. 　　WITF will host a free preview screening of the series followed by a community conversation about the role of Education in Pennsylvania prisons at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg on Tuesday, June 4 from 5-7pm. The event will be emceed by Scott LaMar, Host and Executive Producer of WITF's Smart Talk program.

Estimates are that 20 percent of all men serving in US prisons have been raped. This film looks at the social system within prisons that allows this violent sexual behavior to occur.

A piano teacher living in a working class area allows a 10 year old boy to hide from his family in the teacher's apartment.

A piano teacher living in a working class area allows a 10 year old boy to hide from his family in the teacher's apartment.

A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.

A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.

1983年深秋的上海，几个身世不同的农村姑娘进入了这座大城市，在一栋公寓里当保姆。梁玉芬没有泯灭对知识的渴望，她最终摆脱了逃婚的被动局面，争得了主宰自己的权利。小琴很快交上了男友，她的轻浮举止和虚荣心受到了无情的惩罚，从此开始正式思索人生。秀娥在这些年轻的保姆中颇有主见，但有贪小便宜的毛病，她在这个与人为善的环境里得到感化。中年保姆惠芳的婆婆重男轻女，丈夫硬是把刚出生的女儿送了人，陈院长帮助了她。四个保姆开始了崭新的生活。