Sponsored Project
Beauty Behind Bars
Filmmaker: Roberto Guerra, Kathy Brew, Mosquito Productions
Fiscal Sponsorship Year: 2009
Film Type: Documentary
A women’s prison in Peru holds a beauty pageant where inmates, mostly foreigners arrested for attempted drug smuggling, compete for the title Miss Primavera. The core of the documentary is the personal stories of the contestants: their mistakes, their dreams, their survival, their preparation for Miss Primavera. Why the women are there is the backdrop of the story—as collateral damage in the international war on drugs.