A24 has launched a behind the scenes featurette for its upcoming jail drama Sing Sing. The movie stars Colman Domingo as an inmate at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. The video options the forged and crew providing perception into the story and the characters they play within the movie.
Within the movie: “A theatre troupe finds escape from the realities of incarceration by way of the creativity of placing on a play on this movie primarily based on a real-life rehabilitation programme and that includes a forged that features previously incarcerated actors…
“Each six months, the lads collect in a circle of chairs, usually trying to Divine G (Colman Domingo) to assist resolve their subsequent play. When he recruits a brand new member known as Divine Eye (Clarence Maclin), he will get greater than he bargained for.
“The group’s dynamic begins to shift as Divine Eye suggests they do a comedy for the primary time, prompting the lads to throw out a jumble of untamed concepts — from pirate ships to Roman gladiators to Previous West gunfights.
“Flustered at first, Divine G rapidly begins to see Divine Eye’s discomfort with the vulnerability required for what looks like a foolish pursuit.
“Whereas planning for his personal clemency listening to, he tries to forge a reference to Eye, as the lads collectively unpack the ache of their expertise whereas present process the enjoyment and escape of creativity.”
This seems like an important movie, and it was directed by Greg Kwedar from a screenplay he co-wrote with Clint Bentley. The movie is predicated on the real-life Rehabilitation By way of the Arts program at Sing Sing jail in Ossining, New York.
Domingo is joined within the movie by Clarence Maclin, Sean San José, Paul Raci, Dap Giraudy, Patrick Griffin, Jon Adrian Velazquez and Dino Johnson.
The film is at present in theaters and it’s been getting nice opinions.