SONGS FROM THE HOLE

By Contessa GAYLES

CINETIC MEDIA - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2024

“Songs from the Hole” follows James "JJ'88" Jacobs through a musical opus of Hip-Hop and Soul,
inspired by his innermost struggles as both a person who has committed and experienced violent harm,
as he serves a double-life prison sentence.

Festivals
& Awards

SXSW 2024
Visions
SXSW 2024
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 106 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Contessa GAYLES
    • Producer(s)
    • Richie RESEDA, David Felix SUTCLIFFE
    • Synopsis
    • At 15, he took a life. Three days later, his brother’s life was taken. A documentary visual album,
      “Songs from the Hole” follows James "JJ'88" Jacobs through a musical opus of Hip-Hop and Soul,
      inspired by his innermost struggles as both a person who has committed and experienced violent harm,
      as he serves a double-life prison sentence. The film interweaves the collective storytelling of its nonfiction participants with imagined representations of memories, dreams and spiritual dialogues set to its
      protagonist/co-creator’s original music.