It’s a Hard Truth Ain’t It 

Directed by Dennis Brown, Marshaun Bugg, Franklin Cox, Al”Jonon Coleman, Brandon Crider, James Collines, Clifford Elswick, Quentis Hardiman , Joseph Henderson, Charles Lawrence, Herb Robertson, Madeleine Sackler, Rushawn Tanksley, Mark Thacker 

Produced by Stacey Reiss & Madeleine Sackler
Premiere Tribeca Film Festival 2018
HBO Documentary Films

Filmed at Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility during the same production period as HBO film O.G., It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t It follows 13 incarcerated men as they study filmmaking as a vehicle to explore their memories and how they ended up with decades-long sentences.

Several of those 13 men were also cast as first-time actors in O.G., and all of them directed It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t It alongside O.G. director Madeleine Sackler. Animated sequences by Yoni Goodman bring their stories to life.

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Behind the Scenes