Holloway

Holloway (2025)

Holloway — once the largest women's prison in Europe, now abandoned. Six ex-inmates revisit, recounting experiences, giving voice to incarcerated women. They explore vacant cells and corridors, recalling memories from their time inside.

Date of release
2025-06-18
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Sophie Compton, Daisy-May Hudson

Interesting facts

Holloway is a 2024 feature documentary film directed by Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson. The film follows six women as they return to the abandoned Holloway Prison building where they were once imprisoned. It was co-created through a trauma-informed process with its contributors Aliyah Ali, Tamar Mujanay, Mandy Ogunmokun, Lady Unchained, Gerrah, and Sarah Cassidy. The film was produced by Alice Hughes, Polly Creed, and Sophie Compton.

Production

Holloway Prison closed in July 2016 after the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced in his Autumn Statement on 25 November 2015 that the prison would be closed and demolished and the land sold for housing. The remaining women inside were moved to HMP Downview and HMP Bronzefield, both in Surrey.

The site was then purchased by the housing association Peabody, who are developing the site for housing and a women's building.

Before demolition work began on the site, the filmmakers secured access to film inside the prison in August 2021. The development, production and post-production process of filming the documentary was co-created with the six women in the film and was built using trauma-informed principles.

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