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Writ Writer

Writ Writer tells the story of an indigent and under-educated Mexican American sentenced to prison in 1961, and his extraordinary legal battle against the violence and abuse of prisoners’ rights in the Texas prison system.

Premiere Date

June 3, 2008

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Susanne Mason

Producer/Director

Susanne Mason has served as associate producer on a variety of public television documentaries, including Are the Kids Alright?; Struggle in the Fields; Songs of the Homeland; and Go Back to Mexico!. More recently, she wrote, produced, and directed short documentaries about the history of Austin, Texas, for the Save Our Springs Alliance and Watershed Productions, including Town in Transition, a short doc about growth in the Texas capital between 1950 and 1975. Mason’s first film, Stories from the Riverside (1993), a 28-minute documentary that explores domestic homicide through the stories of three women incarcerated for murdering their abusive husbands, received a Silver Apple from the National Educational Film and Video Festival, among other honors.