The team who shot two films simultaneously inside an active maximum security prison can teach us something about working within constraints. My guests on this episode pulled off one of the most amazing behind-the-scenes production stories I've ever heard. Their narrative feature O.G. and documentary It's a Hard Truth Ain't It were both shot simultaneously in an active maximum-security prison. The documentary is co-directed by 13 incarcerated men and the feature was cast with more than 90% real inmates as extras and even as one of the leads. O.G. is a scripted narrative starring Jeffrey Wright of Westworld fame as a prisoner about to go on parole after spending his entire adult life inside—and his kind of older brother relationship with a young inmate called Beecher who is played by an actual inmate in the prison where they shot. It's a Hard Truth Ain't It is a partially animated documentary about the real lives of several lifelong prisoners and the events that landed them in jail in the first place. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 9 July, 2018