When applicants get accepted to Yale Law School, probably the last thing they expect to learn is how to make movies. But there’s a small group of students who spend nearly as much time with a camera as they do studying caselaw and prepping for final exams.
The member of Yale’s Visual Law Project are making documentary films about legal and policy issues, such as prison conditions, immigration and racial profiling. Last year, one of the films, entitled “The Worst of the Worst,” about a Connecticut prison that keeps inmates in solitary confinement year-round, was submitted for consideration to the Sundance Film Festival and profiled on MSNBC.
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