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Songs from the Hole: Full Cast & Crew 2024 Documentary/Drama/Music
At 15, he took a life. Three days later, his brother's life was taken. A moving chronicle of forgiveness, family, and the transformative power of art, SONGS FROM THE HOLE weaves music and storytelling into an innovative documentary visual album. Through clear-eyed narration and lyrical journal entries, incarcerated musician James "JJ'88" Jacobs reveals his innermost struggles as a person who has both committed and experienced violent harm. While serving a double-life prison sentence, he searches for healing and peace as he comes of age in this documentary-musical odyssey composed behind bars. In a unique creative process director Contessa Gayles (The Feminist on Cellblock Y, Founder Girls) collaborated with protagonist/writer JJ'88 and producer/music producer richie reseda to interweave the collective storytelling of the film's non-fiction participants, with imagined memories, dreams and spiritual dialogues set to JJ'88's original music. The result is a powerful mix of truth-telling and dreaming that reveal the potential for healing and liberation within us all. Released (Streaming): Aug 13, 2025 See Movie Details

Cast & Crew

All Cast Crew
Contessa Gayles Director, Writer, Screenwriter, Producer, Cinematographer, Film Editor Kellie Evans Actor Devonte Hoy Actor Myles Lassiter Actor JJ'88 Screenwriter, Original Music richie reseda Producer, Original Music David Felix Sutcliffe Producer Michelle Kwong Cinematographer Rafe Scobey-Thal Film Editor Princess A. Hairston Film Editor Tairiq Bright Original Music Garfield Bright III Original Music