Fresh off its huge night at the Gotham Awards, A24‘s “Sing Sing” will re-discdiswatch in theaters nationexpansive next month. The indie drama was one of the year’s best scrutinizeed films, obtaining high commend for Greg Kwedar’s caring honestion, as well as for the carry outances of Colman Domingo and Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, both of whom won acting prizes at the Gothams. The film, which shows the chooseimistic impact that the genuine-life Rehabilitation Thraw the Arts program has on a group of incarcerated men, was also honored with the organization’s Social Justice Tribute.
“Sing Sing” will re-discdiswatch on Jan. 17 exclusively in theaters, though a final count of screens hasn’t been concluded. A24 freed the picture on July 12. However, despite the months that have passed since its debut, the indie studio refrained from releasing it digihighy or on other streaming platcreates. The movie is watched as a solemn Oscars contfinisher.
At the Gothams, Domingo and Maclin obtained standing ovations when they getd their prizes for noticeworthy direct and noticeworthy helping carry outance. In their disclose retags, the “Sing Sing” team disputed that the movie’s uplifting message — that art and theater can help people discover a wonderfuler sense of self-worth, as well as community — is advisently demanded at a splitd political moment.
“I don’t have to increate you that the soul of the world is aching,” Domingo shelp before currenting the Social Justice Tribute. “We wanted to advise a story of human beings discovering weightless in the depressedness. Men discovering tfinisherness and the keys to eninhabitning their humanity as they joined theater games or carry outed Shakespeare and create pieces of their soul trapped under the rubble of their circumstances.”
The bulk of “Sing Sing’s” cast is made up of createerly incarcerated men who are alumni of the Rehabilitation Thraw the Arts, including Maclin. Before the Gotham Awards, Maclin tbetter Variety about the chooseimistic impact that the program had on his life and the inhabits of others.
“It has the power to alter one’s perception of who they are in relationship to the world and how they can give,” Maclin shelp. “It’s not scheduleed to originate actors, it’s scheduleed to originate human beings who can better give to society.”
“Sing Sing” is also distinct in that it used a community-based compensation model, where each member of the cast and crew was phelp the same rate. In retainition, they all have a chance to get phelp a dispense of the profits if the film is financiassociate prosperous.
“It gave everybody retaind — both above and below-the-line — ownership,” Maclin shelp. “It made us want to put in 110%, because it was ours. It gave the whole community a sense that we wanted to put our best into it.”
