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Madeleine Sackler
American film director and producer, Madeleine Sackler has been working in the field for over a decade. In 2009 she founded the production company Great Curve Films. Her film "It's A Hard Truth, Ain't It" (2018), a documentary about the lives of five inmates of the maximum-security Pendleton Correction Facility, was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary category. The drama "O.G." (2018), in which an inmate prepares for his release from prison, uses real experiences from prison inmates to tell the story. Sackler's "Dangerous Acts Starring The Unstable Elements of Belarus" (2013) won an Academy Award for Outstanding Arts and Cultural Programming at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards.