SONGS FROM THE HOLE
Directed, Produced & Edited by Contessa Gayles
Role: Producer
Visions Audience Award - SXSW
Grand Jury Award: Best Feature Documentary - BlackStar Film Festival
Audience Award - New Orleans International Film Festival
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 a person who has both committed and experienced violent harm.
Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematographer: Contessa Gayles
Producers: richie reseda, David Felix Sutcliffe
Writer, Co-Producer: James “JJ’88” Jacobs
Editors: Princess Hairston, Rafe Scobey-Thal
Website: www.songsfromthehole.com