Great Curve Films is a film production company founded in 2009 by director/producer Madeleine Sackler. Great Curve's two latest films are the narrative feature film O.G., starring Jeffrey Wright and Theotus Carter, and the documentary IT'S A HARD TRUTH AIN'T IT, which was co-directed with thirteen men inside a maximum-security prison and nominated for a 2020 Emmy Award in the Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary category. Both films were made inside the walls of a maximum-security prison in close collaboration with both the staff of the prison as well as men who are currently incarcerated there. Both films are currently available on HBO.
Madeleine in IndieWire: Remembering ‘It’s a Hard Truth Ain’t It’ Co-Director Charles Lawrence
Q&A with Madeleine and HBO on the making of O.G. and Its a Hard Truth Ain't It
It's Not Only Police Violence: America's Culture of Punishment
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