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“Directed by Contessa Gayles, Songs From the Hole, winner of a SXSW Audience Award, focuses on JJ’88, who says in an early look at the film [see trailer below] that he’s been ‘thinking about freedom since the day I got locked up when I was 15.’ Deeper into the preview, JJ’88 notes the difficulty of acknowledging ‘the worst thing you’ve ever done.’ For him, that’s ‘the day I took a life.’
“In a BlackStar Projects interview last year, Gayles described the film as being ‘about faith, family, freedom, and the transformative, liberatory healing power of art and imagination.’
“As Gayles explained, she made the film in collaboration with JJ’88, who’s not only the story’s protagonist but also a writer and co-producer.
“‘We use his music that he wrote in solitary confinement and collaborated while he was incarcerated to tell this story,’ she added.”
Watch the trailer:
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