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    Filming prison blues: Breaking out of the jailhouse drama genre

    Filming prison blues: Breaking out of the jailhouse drama genre

    THE ECONOMIST | April 30, 2018 | A.H.B. – “O.G.” and “It’s A Hard Truth Ain’t It”, a feature and a documentary from the same film-maker, ...

    Starring inmates, ‘O.G’ puts incarceration under a new lens

    ASSOCIATED PRESS | Apr. 27, 2018 | Jake Coyle — More than 120 incarcerated men and dozens of prison guards play roles large and small in ...

    2018 Tribeca Film Festival Awards: ‘Diane,’ ‘Smuggling Hendrix,’ and More Take Top Honors

    INDIEWIRE | April 26, 2018 | Michael Nordine – Best Actor in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film: Jeffrey Wright in O.G. The award was given by...

    Four Movies at the Tribeca Film Festival That Don’t Pretend

    VILLAGE VOICE | April 25, 2018 A film-within-a-film is a well-worn narrative conceit, but one that seems more complicated in the context ...

    Filmmaking in Jail: How Director Madeleine Sackler Shot Two Movies in a Maximum-Security Prison

    INDIEWIRE | April 24, 2018 | Chris O'Falt "O.G." and "It's A Hard Truth Ain't It" are the products of Madeleine Sackler's five year journ...

    The Première of “O.G.,” the Film Made Inside an Indiana Prison

    THE NEW YORKER | April 24, 2018 | Nick Paumgarten – The film “O.G.,” set and shot in a prison in Indiana, using inmates and guards as cas...

    17 Movies to Enjoy for the Tribeca Film Festival’s 17th Edition

    THE NEW YORK TIMES | April 17, 2018 | Ben Kenigsberg – The good news for anyone who finds the Tribeca Film Festival daunting is that the ...

    Tribeca Film Festival Unveils Feature Lineup

    DEADLINE | March 7, 2018| Dino-Ray Ramos – The 17th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival announced today their feature film lineup. On th...

    Tribeca Film Festival Unveils 2018 Slate

    VARIETY | March 7, 2018 | Gordon Cox – The Tribeca Film Festival has set its full feature film slate for 2018, tapping 96 movies, includi...
    A Prison Film Made in Prison

    A Prison Film Made in Prison

    THE NEW YORKER | January 29, 2018 | Nick Paumgarten – When Theothus Carter was eleven, he and some friends stole a car, just for kicks. T...

    NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES ANNOUNCES WINNERS

    THE EMMYS | September 28, 2015 [...] OUTSTANDING ARTS & CULTURE PROGRAMMING HBO Documentary Films                                        ...

    Sackler Talks Astonishing TIFF Doc ‘Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus’

    INDIEWIRE | September 20, 2013 | Anne Thompson – Sackler Talks Astonishing TIFF Doc 'Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Bel...

    Toronto Film Review: ‘Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus’

    VARIETY | September 18, 2013 | Dennis Harvey – Madeleine Sackler's engrossing documentary chronicles upheaval in 'the last dictatorship i...

    Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus: Toronto Review

    THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | September 12, 2013 | Stephen Dalton – Newly acquired by HBO, this globetrotting American documentary meets the b...

    HBO Nabs TV Rights to ‘Lottery’ Director’s Doc About the Belarus Free Theatre

    INDIEWIRE | September 3, 2013 | Alison Willmore – HBO Nabs TV Rights to 'Lottery' Director's Doc About the Belarus Free Theatre Ahead of ...

    Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus review – powerful account of 'Europe's last

    THE GUARDIAN | March 29, 2013 | Mark Kermode – Belarus Free Theatre's heroic struggle against oppression makes a a stirring, moving docum...

    Documentary: Duke basketball title teams not all laughs

    USA TODAY | October 13, 2011 | Ray Glier – In a pickup game in Cameron Indoor Stadium in September 1991, Bobby Hurley had enough of the b...

    Duke title teams get documentary

    ESPN | October 13, 2011 – NEW YORK – Duke's back-to-back title teams are the latest college basketball squads from the early 1990s to get...

    New York Magazine Critics' Picks

    NEW YORK MAGAZINE – The Lottery 📷 Critics' Pick (NO LONGER IN THEATERS) Rating: No Rating Director: Madeleine Sackler   Cast: Cory Booke...

    Capsule movie reviews: '2:22'Also reviewed: '8: The Mormon Proposition,' 'The Lottery,' 'Raavan'

    LOS ANGELES TIMES | June 18, 2010 | Gary Goldstein – On the face of it, the Harlem Success Academy, an upper Manhattan public charter sch...
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