Edgar Barens - Documentary Filmmaker - Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

Edgar's body of work includes documentary films, experimental shorts, music videos and public service announcements, which have been screened at numerous film festivals, conferences, broadcast nationally and internationally, as well as distributed educationally.Edgar has worked on notable documentaries including: Angola Prison Hospice: Opening the Door, A Sentence of Their Own, and more recently the Oscar nominated documentary short for HBO, Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall.Prison Terminal is a moving cinema verit documentary that breaks through the walls of one of Americas oldest maximum security prisons to tell the story of the final months in the life of a terminally ill prisoner, Jack Hall and the hospice volunteers, they themselves prisoners, who care for him.