Shot Caller (2017)

Shot Caller is the gritty crime drama that gave Nikolaj Coster-Waldau — best known as Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones — one of the most transformative roles of his career, as a successful businessman whose DUI conviction sends him spiraling through the American prison system, forced to join a white supremacist gang to survive. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh, the film premiered at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival with a cast that also includes Jon Bernthal, Omari Hardwick, Lake Bell, and Jeffrey Donovan.

The film's prison scenes were shot at the old Penitentiary of New Mexico outside Santa Fe — the actual site of the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary riot — lending the production a raw authenticity critics widely praised. halflife* provided dailies throughout filming, helping move footage from that unforgettable location into post. Critics singled out Coster-Waldau's performance as one of the standouts of his career, a testament to a production that leaned all the way into its uncompromising setting.