It’s a sight you normally don’t see in a prison — inmates and visitors walking a red carpet, happily posing for photos that aren’t mug shots. That was the scene last week at Marin County’s San Quentin Rehabilitation Center — formerly San Quentin State Prison — as it hosted the second annual San Quentin Film Festival.
Inside the prison’s barbed wire-lined walls lined, inmates in blue prison garb mixed with visitors as a slate of more than 60 films played on the silver screen of the prison’s chapel.
“The whole idea is there are such talented people whose work never gets seen and isn’t even known,” said Cori Thomas, co-founder of the festival. “You don’t think of people in prisons as talented individuals.”…