New film shows how the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program changed the lives of incarcerated men.
The new film"Sing Sing" employs a cast of formerly incarcerated men to tell a true story about the transformative power of art.
David ‘Dap’ Giraudy, Jon-Adrian ‘JJ’ Velazquez, Sean ‘Dino’ Johnson, and James ‘Big E’ Williams who are some of the RTA alumni cast in"Sing Sing." Maclin became part of the steering committee for RTA at Sing Sing. He joined the program after realizing that the actors he had seen in a play performed at Sing Sing were not from the outside but rather were incarcerated men like him. And he wanted to be a part of that.His character says,"Some of the things the brother was saying in the book really resonated with me. What did the brother say? 'When we are born we cry because we are born to a stage of fools.
The film serves up an inspiring and hopeful portrait of these men, and of the RTA program. Maclin hopes the film will help to humanize people like him.
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