Sing Sing is set to be the first movie to be released in cinemas as well as in prisons at the same time. A24 have decided to re-release the critically acclaimed beautiful movie and the Colman Domingo masterpiece will also be available in over 1,000 prisons across the US. The choice means it has the potential reach nearly one million inmates.
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Initially released last summer, Sing Sing has since received three Independent Spirit Award nominations, an Actors Guild Award nomination and been considered a frontrunner for this year’s Oscars. The groundbreaking film is based on a true story of a theatre program that ran at one of New York’s maximum-security prisons. Rather than an actual prison break, Sing Sing focuses on another escape; it was the first unit to offer inmates the opportunity to use the power of arts and performing to reduce hate and recidivism.
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The cast is led by Emmy-award winning actor Colman Domingo, who plays Divine G, a man who has been wrongfully incarcerated. Director Greg Kwedar wanted the production to bleed authenticity, therefore majority of cast members are in fact alumni of the RTA (Rehabilitation Through the Arts, the scheme that inspired the movie). Jon-Adrian ‘JJ’ Velazquez and Clarence ‘Divine Eye’ Maclin are among many of the ex-inmates who found their escape through the arts.
