WOMEN IN BLUE

WOMEN IN BLUE

American Perspectives
85 min

When Janeé Harteau becomes Minneapolis’s first female police chief, she sets out to change a troubled department by addressing racially biased policing, increasing transparency, recruiting more women into the force, and championing leadership roles for female officers. But all of her reforms are threatened by an officer’s fatal shooting of an unarmed woman. Filming both before and after George Floyd’s murder, Deirdre Fishel follows four female officers as they navigate the changing department, offering a compelling inside look at the complex intersection of gender, race, and the limits of reform within an ethically questionable institution.

Watch an exclusive pre-recorded Q&A with Director/Producer Deirdre Fishel.

Director: Deirdre Fishel
Producer: Beth Levison, Deirdre Fishel, Aideen Kane
Cinematographer: Tom Bergmann
Editor: Sunita Prasad, Christopher White
Music: Chad Cannon
Language: English
Country: USA
Year: 2020
US Distributor: ITVS
Black Stories
Law and Justice
Women and Girls
Women Directors

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