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Sam Bathrick. Director: 16 Bars. Sam Bathrick began his career as a refugee caseworker in West Africa, interviewing survivors of war, an experience that would ignite his passion for bringing tough but true stories to light.
- Director, Cinematographer, Producer
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Sam Bathrick. Director: 16 Bars. Sam Bathrick began his career as a refugee caseworker in West Africa, interviewing survivors of war, an experience that would ignite his passion for bringing tough but true stories to light.
- What We Knew
- What We Didn’T Know
- Tools of The Trade
- Lightning in A Bottle
- Continuing The Work
- Locking Up
Richmond Sheriff C.T. Woody had created a recording studio in the city jail where inmates on good behavior were learning to engineer and record their own music. Speech from the hip-hop crew Arrested Developmenthad been invited to the jail to conduct music workshops with the inmates. The sheriff called them “residents” at his facility. The recording...
How could we make a film, a creative venture, inside of a high security facility where our every movement was monitored and controlled? How would Speech produce music — an act of raw and free human expression — with a bunch of men whose lives were controlled by prison guards in a space designed to strip them of their humanity? Would any of it be wo...
On Audio Equipment Choice There was no choice. One pair of headphones, one cable. No choices to make about acoustics in the room either. Someone had taped discarded egg crates on concrete walls that met in a corner. That was the sound booth. Like the film crew, Speech knew very little about what he was going to record over the course of his two wee...
There’s an alchemy to the creative process, an invisible hand that, if we’re lucky, can guide the participants in, say, a vocal recording session toward brilliance. I believe that happened inside this jail. It was in spite of the box or maybe even because of it that these four men, Garland, Teddy, Anthony, and Devonte, were compelled to tell their ...
Speech would later bring these recordings back to his studio in Atlanta, where the choices became infinite again. Through his hands and those of other musicians and producers who contributed to the album, the raw poetry of these lyrics took on new shapes and forms that we could have never imagined when we were sitting in that small concrete room. C...
In the end, what I learned is that when some doors are closed and locked, the space that remains, no matter how confined, can become charged with with intention. As creators, we often fuss over the tools — which ones to own, which settings to dial in, which add-ons and attachments to pack. And once we make those choices, the tools themselves create...
Nov 7, 2019 · The movie, directed by Sam Bathrick, follows Thomas and four participants during the process.
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Oct 16, 2019 · The new documentary is a rare view of the human cost of incarceration and America’s criminal justice system. As a teenager in Atlanta’s Jewish community, Sam Bathrick found himself often thinking and talking about issues of social justice.
Feb 4, 2020 · 16 Bars: Directed by Sam Bathrick. With Speech Thomas, Garland T. Carr, Tennyson Jackson, Devonte James. Inmates in Virginia attempt to transcend the cycle of recidivism through an unlikely artistic collaboration behind bars with Grammy-winning hip hop artist Todd 'Speech' Thomas.
Nov 18, 2019 · The film is the work of director Sam Bathrick and Todd “Speech” Thomas of the American hip hop group “Arrested Development”.
