2008 Films

A fierce competition rages at the Good Shepherd prison, the largest women’s penitentiary in Colombia. After surviving brutal rounds of bathing suit, evening gown, and talent competitions, the last woman standing will don the coveted crown as winner of the prison’s annual beauty pageant. Will you root for the cocky assassin, the demure guerilla fighter, or the charismatic armed robber? This fascinating and somewhat sobering Academy Award-nominated film provides intimate access to trash-talking beauty queens as they throw themselves wholeheartedly into a spectacle that is a little odd even for a country where beauty pageants reign supreme. MP