O.G.
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
Madeleine Sackler
Casts & Crew
Jeffrey Wright
Theothus Carter
William Fichtner
Boyd Holbrook
Mare Winningham
David Patrick Kelly
Yul Vazquez
Bahni Turpin
Ryan Cutrona
Ato Essandoh
Lisa Ash
Stephanie Berry
David Burnett
Candido Carter
Amanda Christine
James Durham
Brooke Edwards
Steven Foster Sr.
Challie A. Gray
Christopher Helsley
Earl Hogan
J.C. Jackson
Kyle McKinney
Markus Murray
Amy Pauszek
Yolonda Ross
Alan M. Stacy
Rushawn Tanksley
Milo Walker
Also Directed by Madeleine Sackler
Former Duke All-Americans Grant Hill and Christian Laettner are teaming up once again, this time with Turner Sports, to offer viewers an inside look at one of the most-storied college basketball programs in the history of the game. The documentary will revisit 1991 and 1992, when the Blue Devils became the first school to win back-to-back National Championships in nearly 20 years.
"It’s a Hard Truth Ain’t It" is a companion piece to "O.G.", a narrative drama also directed by Madeleine Sackler. It is co-directed by thirteen men incarcerated at the Pendleton Correctional Facility in Pendleton, Indiana. Given unprecedented access to a maximum security prison, filmmaker Madeleine Sackler worked with a group of inmates to tell their own stories, giving rise to this collaborative, intimate documentary project.
Four children enter a high-stakes lottery. If they win, they can attend one of the best schools in New York. A look at the crisis in public education, The Lottery makes the case than any child can succeed.
In the Republic of Belarus, Europe’s last remaining unreconstructed Communist dictatorship, the Belarus Free Theatre risks censorship, imprisonment and worse to stage their provocative and subversive plays in secret performances at home and to critical acclaim abroad. Director Madeleine Sackler goes behind the scenes with this group of gutsy performers as they brave a renewed government crackdown on dissenters in 2010.