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“The
Long Black Line” came to me as a story idea in 1997.
I had spent maybe two years of my life in East Texas, and
yet it was the only home I knew. Throughout my childhood,
my family had moved from one Army base to another, relocating
every two or three years – we covered two foreign
countries and six states in the U.S. The East Texas woods
were home to me because my grandparents were always there. |
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Herman Wright
Executive Producer/Director/Writer |
Herman Wright is founder and President
of MC3, an entertainment and educational company with
operations in California, Texas and Virginia.
A 20-year veteran of marketing and sales in the health
care industry and a fourth generation Texan, Mr. Wright
launched MC3 in 2002. His first documentary, The Long
Black Line: An American Story, was the result of this
former college history major’s discovery of
a story about a prominent local family in his hometown
newspaper, the Jasper Newsboy. The family had traced
their roots back to the early 1800s, to ancestors
who were among the first settlers in the area. Three
facts struck him: First, their surname was
Wright, like his. Second, their ancestral land is
include.s his family’s land. Finally, they are
white and he is black.
His research for the documentary and upcoming projects
became more than a simple genealogy project. In time,
he not only learned where he came from, but also about
the power of family, community and a mother’s
love. learned that there are thousands of others like
him, who came up successfully by the same path.
For this project, Mr. Wright also drew from his experience
in growing up in states across the country, including
two years in East Texas. He also lived in Central
America and West Africa, where his father served in
the United States Army.
Wright received his bachelor's degree from Texas
Christian University and his law degree from the University
of Texas, Austin. He followed in his father’s
footsteps and served in the United States Army as
a Captain in the 1st Infantry Division, Field Artillery.
MC3 is an entertainment and educational company that
focuses on the universality of the human condition.
With the expressed goal of connecting people and cultures
through story-telling, MC3 strives to produce multi-media
projects that promote the common links thatunify us
in spite of our differences.
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Ryan
Darden
Editor
Ryan is a sound and video editor with exerience
using Final Cut Pro, Avid, Pro Tools, and Adobe After
Effects. He has a graduate degree in Television Production
from Loyola Marymount University in Westchester, CA,
where he worked as a sound designer and mixer on seven
undergraduate and eight raduate level films.
He served as a Sound FX Editor for Technicolor on the
television series Gilmore Girls and Studio City, bere
joining New Dominion Pictures in Saffolk, VA. Ryan has
been a mobile DJ in over thirty clubs thoughout the
United States, and has co-produed and mixed several
hip hop albums. |
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Mike
Stahl
Director of Photography
Mike received a Masters
of Arts degree from Regent University in Virginia
Beach, VA, and his student film won a Cine Golden
Eagle and the Viewer’s Choice Award at the Hollywood
Film Festival. He began working in television in 1992,
as a segment producer for Comcast Cable in Philadelphia.
He later worked for The Earth Conservancy before
returning to the Hampton Roads area, where he has
worked as a producer, director of photography and
editor for the Christian Broadcast Network, New Dominion
Pictures and Coastal Video. He has also done camera
work on feature films, including Jekyll Island (1998). |
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Larry
Goeb
Sound Editor
Larry is a Dialogue, Sound Effects
and ADR Editor who has worked on more than twenty
feature films, forty TV series and fifty TV movies/pilots.
Among his credits are the films Forces of Nature (1999)
and Barbershop (2002), and the TV series NYPD Blue,
Gideon’s Crossing, The Guardian and Judging
Amy.
He has been nominated for fourteen Golden Reel Awards,
winning in 1999 for his work on the HBO movie Introducing
Dorothy Dandridge. He has also been nominated for
three Primetime Emmys, for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge,
the USA miniseries Dune and the USA miniseries Steven
Spielberg Presents Taken. |
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Robert
Seymone
Producer
For nearly forty years, Robert has
been acting in film, television and therater. He has
appeared in productions for Showtime, USA netwok,
and The Discovery Channel, and more recently in the
films Family Reunion The Movie (2003), Mickey (2004)
and Gravity (2004). In 2001, Robert founded Skillet
Productions, with the goal of helping people to self-actualize
thoguh the Arts.
He has served as a special assitant to director Tim
Reid on the feature film For Real, and will soon star
in and co-produced and off Broadway revival of Ben
Cladwell’s The Militant Preacher, and a sitcome
entitled Uncle Johnny. |
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Joseph
Maddrey
Writer/Associate Producer
In early 2001, Joseph
began work in television as a researcher on The Discovery
Channel series The FBI Files. Since then, he has served
as a researcher, writer and associate producer on
the original Science Channel series Failure Analytsius,
the forthcoming Discovery Channel series A Haunting,
and the MC3 production The Long Black Line, An American
Sory.
Joseph is also the author of Nightmare in Red, White
and Blue-The Evolution of the American Horror Film,
published by McFarlanmd Inc. |
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Dawn
K. Goeb
Writer
Dawn is an Emmy Award winning writer
and editor with strong storytelling skills. She has
more than twenty years of experience and an extensive
background including full-length documentaries, news
magazines pieces, breaking news stories, and educational
programs.
From 1994 to 199, Dawn worked for ABC News on programs
such as World News Tonight with Preter Jennings. 20/20,
Primetime Live, Nightline and Good Monring America.
She has worked on projects for PBS, Lifetime, MSNBC,
Fox family Channel, The Discovery Channel and National
Geographic. |
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