Making indie feature 'Sing Sing' with non actors - Director Greg Kwedar, Producer Monique Walton and Writer Clint Bentley

The Filmmakers Podcast

This week we are joined by the team behind the superb prison drama Sing Sing!

Dom Lenoir sits and chats with Producer Monique Walton and Writer Clint Bentley and also Director Greg Kwedar about how they made their movie starring Coleman Domingo, the difficulties of making an indie film in a prison with many non actors

They talk about:

• Working with and adapting real stories and peoples experiences into narrative.
• The process of writing, rewriting and rebuilding a script to find the purest version
• Attaching a top actor early on a project and allowing them to help form and collaborate the story
• Working on an indie budget and schedule in a small window of time between Colman's other films
• Pitching to producer Monique and others and what materials to have in place
• Working around the penitentiary system and finding alternatives to filming in challenging working prison environments
• Having to cut scenes due to cast availability restrictions and how to turn that into a benefit
• The importance of collaboration and letting people into the process.

Sing Sing is OUT NOW!

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