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Janet Baus is a Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor and Cinematography American

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Janet Baus is a documentary film and television director, producer and editor. In 1993, she co-directed Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too with Su Friedrich, about activist group the Lesbian Avengers. In 2003 she produced John Scagliotti's film Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World about gay and lesbian people in non-Western countries. She had worked with Scagliotti before, having a co-producer credit on his 1999 film After Stonewall. Her 2006 film Cruel and Unusual, co-directed with Dan Hunt and Reid Williams, was a documentary about pre-operative male-female transsexual women in men's prisons. It won the Michael J. Berg Documentary Award at the 2006 Frameline Film Festival and the Freedom Award at L.A. Outfest. Baus has also won the Cine Golden Eagle, the Vito Russo Award, the Chicago International Television Award and the Gold Aurora Award.

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Cruel and Unusual (2006)

, 1h6
Directed by Janet Baus
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about law enforcement, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Rating63%

According to the film, prisoners in the United States are incarcerated in men's or women's prisons depending on their biological sex (or, more specifically, whether they have male or female genitals), and not their gender identity. As a result, pre-operative trans women are incarcerated in men's prisons, and trans men in women's prisons.