'Sing Sing' is a riveting new movie getting rave reviews. Paul Raci plays Brent Buell, a theater director who spent a decade in the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at maximum security prisons.
"Sing Sing" is a new movie getting rave reviews, and it stars Chicago Oscar-nominated actor Paul Raci along with Colman Domingo. Raci spoke with ABC7."Sing Sing" is a riveting new movie getting rave reviews. It is about how the arts can heal even those behind bars serving prison terms.
The cast includes Oscar nominees Colman Domingo and Chicago's Paul Raci, who tells ABC7's Hosea Sanders what it's like bringing the true story to the screen.Raci plays Brent Buell, a theater director who spent a decade in the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at maximum security prisons.That's what's so powerful about watching the guys go through the experience of becoming actors, and there's this one guy who had this aha moment...
A big part of the whole story is listening to people and making them feel seen in environment of incarceration. "That's what's so powerful about watching the guys go through the experience of becoming actors, and there's this one guy who had this aha moment of, "my God what have I done? Now I get it and I'm behind these bars,'" Raci said.Oscar-nominated actor Paul Raci debuting new movie 'Sing Sing' at Chicago Critics Film Festival"Colman Domingo is the man, he's the man of the hour," Raci said. "So real, so wonderful, warm.
The performances in "Sing Sing" are so compelling, there's already Oscar buzz for the actors. That includes some of the men who were once in prison who are part of the cast.
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