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PRODUCTION TEAM
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International Documentary Association,
Fiscal Sponsor
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Angel Harper, Producer –
Director – Narrator
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Dianne Farrington, Director of
Photography
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Ramona L. Taylor, Esquire -
Screenwriter
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Desirée Jellerette, Line
Producer
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Warren Saire, Editor
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Trisha Kirk, Assistant Writer
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Charles M. Davis, Associate
Producer/Senior Researcher
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Frank M. Lunn, Esquire,
Attorney
International Documentary Association (IDA)
In January 2002, the International
Documentary Association (IDA) agreed to become the
fiscal sponsor of “Keeping the Faith with Morrie
Turner.” The IDA office is located at Los Angeles
Center Studios in downtown Los Angeles, California.
Janice Van Wagoner is the Fiscal Sponsorship
Coordinator for the IDA. Ms. Van Wagoner’s telephone
number at the IDA is 213-534-3600 ext. 7445. Her
e-mail address is
janice@documentary.org. To verify fiscal
sponsorship of this film project, you may contact
her.
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Angel
Harper, Producer – Director – Narrator
As executive producer of Heaven Sent
Productions, a demanding schedule has not kept Angel
from excelling in producing and winning awards for
her projects. She received an award for Outstanding
Achievement from the American Women In Radio and
Film for producing the documentary, "Due Process of
the Law."
A member of both AFTRA and SAG
unions, she is a winner of America’s Funniest People
and has appeared on BET’s Comic View and Show Me the
Funny. Angel is also the author of
Master the Art of Cold
Reading, “an actor’s guide to making
the best of cold reading workshops,” available at
www.booksurge.com or at Samuel French Bookshop
in Los Angeles. Among her versatile talents, Angel
is also an award winning
voice-over performer with two consecutive
Achievement In Radio Awards for her outstanding
work. Her voice versatility ranges from commercials,
narrations, ADR work and cartoons such as Rugrats,
Monsters and Captain Planet. Angel is an active
member of Women in Animation. Weekdays, her comedic
voice can be heard on the Tom Joyner Morning Show as
Doctor Cotton. She is also the founder of Smile
Productions, which developed the comedy showcase
Comedy Flavors. Angel graduated from Cornell
University with a Bachelor of Science degree in
Radio and Television Production. Following her
education, she moved to Washington, D.C. There she
enjoyed success in both broadcast sales and acting.
Angel is a mentor for students from her alma mater,
Cornell University, and an active member of the
Creative Arts team for her church, Oasis Christian
Center.
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Dianne
Farrington - Director of Photography
Dianne Farrington has a B.A. in Radio
and Television from the University of Wisconsin. She
studied Cinematography at American Film Institute in
Los Angeles. Farrington began her career as a camera
and tape operator for WTVS in Detroit, Michigan.
Following her stint at WTVS, she moved to Los
Angeles to expand her career in television. She
worked as an Operator on popular television programs
such as Moesha (UPN), Mad About You (NBC), Preston
Episodes (Fox TV), and Showtime Network’s Red Show
Diaries and All That Glitters. Her ambitions to
establish her photography career in entertainment
garnered her second unit camera work on several
motion picture productions. Nutty Professor
(starring actor Eddie Murphy), One Night Stand
(starring actor Wesley Snipes), and Starship
Troopers are a few films to her credit. She did
considerable camera work on award-winning
independent films and documentaries which have
showcased in film festival such as Slamdance,
Hollywood Black Film Festival, and Pan African Film
Festival – One Woman’s Extraordinary Journey
(documentary), Safe House, Til Death Do Us Part,
Restraining Order. She has heavily worked as a
videographer for the reputable Junket Productions,
Inc. and done freelance entertainment coverage for
the Associated Press.
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Ramona
L. Taylor, Esq. - Screenwriter
Ms. Taylor was raised in rural
Georgia. She graduated the first Black
valedictorian, post integration, from her High
School, Lamar County Comprehensive in the mid 1980s.
She received her undergraduate degree from Duke
University in 1985 and her Juris Doctor from the
University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law
in 2000. While in Law School, Ms. Taylor was an Earl
Warren Scholar, a Nina Kestin Award recipient, and
served as a student assistant for Dr. Jonathan A.
Stubbs, editor of the Oliver Hill autobiography, Big
Bang.
Ms. Taylor is author of over twenty
published articles and reviews, and has placed in a
number of national writing competitions. She is an
accomplished researcher, and is produced
screenwriter. She currently has several projects in
post production including a feature produced by
Magic City Films, Inc., and a documentary regarding
the life of Civil Rights Legend, Oliver White Hill.
In addition to her writing and legal careers, Ms.
Taylor serves on various advisory committees and
volunteers for various organizations, including the
Special Olympics, and maintains a law practice which
focuses on special education, juvenile and indigent
defense.
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Desirée Jellerette, Line Producer
In April 1999, Desirée Jellerette, a
producer and production manager from New York City
had decided to make her move to the city of Angels.
After working with some of the hottest independent
movie mogul Film Directors on the East Coast, Spike
Lee, Jason Alexander, Night Shayamalan, Ernest
Dickerson, Leslie Harris, Julian Schnabel, Desirée
believes she can launch her career in Hollywood with
a bang. Along with her passion for feature films,
Desirée has been cultivating the world of music
video production. Her love of music has led her to
produce and production manage several music videos
for such artists as E40, Ice Cube, Mobb Deep,
Inspectah Deck, Master P, Shaq, Projecto Uno, BadAzz
and has even worked with the Lakers' Championship
Team 2001 for a Shaquille O'Neil music video, It
Takes Two. She finds the fusion of these two mediums
of sight and sound are fascinating and exhilarating.
After completing a Business and Marketing degree
from Cornell University, 1983, Desirée plunged into
the financial markets for a successful five years at
Citibank's Executive Banking Center, a high
net-worth banking center on Park Avenue - receiving
promotions, accolades, a loan credit initial and her
stockbrokers license, but this did not feel right
for her. It was all too easy and not creative
enough. In 1988, Desirée had an opportunity to work
on an independent feature film, Def by Temptation
(1990) while looking for new horizons. Never
thinking that filmmaking would be an option - before
the movie was completed – it was clear that
producing would be a perfect fit for Desirée. In
1989, working on her second project, and being
introduced to the Spike Lee way of making films on
Mo' Better Blues (1990), she was hooked, and became
Spike Lee's right hand (wo)man for the next five
years for 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks, when she
resigned she was the Administrative Director for 40
Acres.
Desirée has gone on to coordinate,
production manage and line produce over 16
independent feature films with budgets as low as
$500,000 to budgets in excess of $6 Million,
documentaries and numerous shorts, the latest short
was for Showtime with Vanessa L. Williams’
directorial debut. In addition to working directly
for production, Desirée has dedicated a few years to
the post production side of the film business which
its process is almost as complicated as the film
shoot itself. Desirée has been privileged to work
beside Night Shayamalan as his Post Production
Supervisor on Wide Awake, Julian Schnabel on
Basquiat, and most impressively, with Carlos Diegues,
the premier Brazilian director on Tieta do Agreste.
She has also aided in the development of several
film projects in the producer’s quest for financing,
attaching actors and other key film production
personnel, she is crafted in Script Breakdown and a
master at Budgeting scripts.
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Warren
Saire, Editor
Warren was born just outside London,
England in 1968. From the age of four he has worked
professionally in the television and film business.
As an actor Warren has appeared in movies,
television and theatre, including Lady Jane,
Revolution, The Shooting Party, Salome’s Last dance,
Sharpe’s Mission Another Country to name a few. He
continues to work as an actor on occasion, but has
concentrated more on the production side of his
career in recent years.
Warren worked as a freelance member of British
Broadcasting Corporation’s Television’s Training
Department during the late eighties and early
nineties on single camera film director’s courses
that provided training to already highly experienced
members of the BBC’s staff. The courses covered the
process of shooting with a single camera and of
working with actors and narrative storytelling and
documentary production.
He has also run a professional recording studio in
Central London, produced productions for the London
Theatre and is a co-founder of Waters Edge Ltd a
production services company based in Brighton, UK,
now in its eighth year of operation, the companies
clients include Coca-Cola, Playtex, Innovex and the
British Medical Journal.
Highly experienced in all aspects of video/audio
production for broadcast, special events, and the
theatre, including pre production, acquisition,
editing, and multi format delivery and distribution
across the gamut of video and film formats.
Warren has directed, produced, edited and shot
projects that cover a wide range of genres for
broadcast. He is an experienced non-linear editor
and an expert user of Apple Computer’s Final Cut Pro
HD. He is a resident of San Francisco and is
delighted to be working with Angel Harper as chief
cinematographer and editor on the Morrie Turner
Project.
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Trisha
Kirk, Assistant Writer
Trisha Kirk Redding has produced and
filmed non-fiction television programs For The
Learning Channel, National Geographic Channel, The
Discovery Channel and A&E. She also has a strong
background in print and broadcast journalism and has
held positions at KTLA News, New York 1, The
Washington Times and UCLA student programming, where
she headed the first student-run newscast at that
university. She holds a B.A. in Political Science
from UCLA and has also studied at Georgetown
University and in Western Europe.
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Charles M. Davis, Associate Producer/Senior Researcher/
Assistant Writer
Charles Davis, Associate Producer and
Senior Researcher, has remained an avid collector of
Morrie Turner’s work since his youth. His penchant
for studying people of influence, particularly of
African American decent, coupled with an enormous
affection for cartoon and comic art, rendered him a
perfect fit as the Researcher for Harper’s
documentary film. His great researching facility,
interview questions which induce smart conversation,
and counsel on sources to interview for the film
have served as a strong basis to tell the history of
minority cartoonists in America and informed the
film’s narrative. He does a thorough job organizing
the intrastate and national film shoots for the
project. Charles is also a researcher for the
documentary film “UPA: MAVERICKS, MAGIC & MAGOO”
about the pioneering animation studio United
Productions of America (UPA). He professionally
works as a Web Quality Assurance Analyst. Davis
holds a B.S. degree in Management from the
University of La Verne.
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Frank M.
Lunn, Esquire, Attorney
FRANK M. LUNN, is a partner in the
law firm of Rosen Feig Conley & Lunn LLP. He is an
experienced entertainment attorney with an extensive
background in film and television, including
theatrical features, episodic series, network
specials, alternative/reality programming and
movies-for-television. His clients include various
production companies, producers, directors, writers
and actors.
Prior to forming his own law firm in 2002, Frank
worked as an in-house business & legal affairs
attorney for over 7 years at both Fox and Disney.
His experience includes negotiating and drafting
agreements regarding the acquisition, development,
production, financing and distribution of cable and
network programming. He has capably handled all
aspects of day-to-day production affairs, including
advising production executives and supervising legal
oversight of domestic and international productions
filmed in the United States, Canada, Australia,
Germany and the UK. While in-house, Frank also
negotiated and drafted agreements for producers,
writers, directors and talent as well as handled
distribution agreements, license deals and
production service agreements involving other
studios, networks and production companies.
Additionally, Frank has routinely advised clients
regarding intellectual property issues and assisted
with labor matters involving guilds and unions.
As the former head of business affairs for Saban
Entertainment and Fox Family Worldwide in Canada,
Frank negotiated and drafted agreements regarding
the development, production, financing and
distribution of diverse Canadian programming for
20th Century Fox and Paramount. He also assisted
with budget preparation, compliance with Canadian
tax credit initiatives and supervised implementation
of union/guild collective bargaining agreements.
Prior to practicing law, Frank gained hands-on
experience in the production side of the film
industry. He worked as a production assistant at the
Cousteau Society, and as both a cameraman and
production assistant at PBS-affiliate WILL-TV, in
Champaign, Illinois.
Frank is a member of the International Documentary
Association, Association for Independent Commercial
Producers and the Los Angeles County Bar
Association. He also serves on lawyer-referral
panels for both California Lawyers for the Arts and
the Beverly Hills Bar Association. In addition,
Frank is a featured speaker for the Disney Writer
Fellowship Program, the Disney Director Fellowship
Program and The Scriptwriters Network.
Frank is a graduate of the University of Illinois
and received his law degree from California Western
School of Law in San Diego.
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