Pete Chatmon is a graduate of New York University's, Tisch School of the Arts, alma mater to the likes of Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, and many other critically acclaimed artists. His film, "3D," a cautionary tale about a woman (Kerry Washington of "Ray," "Last King of Scotland") being forced to choose between personal success and watching those close to her fail, was chosen to be one of ten films to represent NYU as a thesis project and was selected as one of 64 films out of 2,200 entries to screen in competition at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
In 2005, he produced and directed, "PREMIUM," from an original screenplay that he penned which received significant industry attention with the help of The Sundance Institute. Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, and Hill Harper headline this romantic comedy about "the love before the love" and how one relationship can prepare you for the rest of your life. The supporting cast includes Tonya Pinkins, Eva Pigford, Sean Nelson, Novella Nelson, Keith Nobbs, Frankie Faison, and William Sadler. "PREMIUM" received a limited theatrical and DVD release in the United States in 2007. The film premiered on the Showtime Networks in November 2007.
Chatmon also wrote, produced, and directed the feature-length documentary, "761st," about the first African-American soldiers to fight in armored vehicles in WWII. Interviews include 11 original combat veterans of the 761st Tank Battalion, Gen. Colin Powell, and other military experts. "761st" is narrated by Andre Braugher.
Most recently, he expanded into commercial and music video production with his direction of Grammy Award winning R&B artist Joe's, "We're Family" music video, for Universal Pictures "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins" soundtrack. The film stars Martin Lawrence.
Chatmon's production company Double 7 Film is currently raising private equity for a 5-Picture Development Slate to further its mission of bringing unique stories to the screen that spotlight the voice of the unheard.
For more information, visit Chatmon's Web site at www.double7film.com or www.youtube.com/Double7Film.
Randall Dottin
Randall Dottin grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After attending St. Sebastian's High School, he went on to Dartmouth College and received his bachelor's degree in Film.
At Dartmouth College, he won the Eleanor Frost Competition for Hustle, his play about a group of young basketball players whose coach dies two weeks before the biggest tournament of their lives. A major figure of the arts at Dartmouth, Randall was the artistic director of the Black Underground Theatre and Arts Association, where he directed a number of original works written by students. Upon graduation, Dottin won Dartmouth's Warner Bentley Award for the highest contribution to the arts by an undergraduate.
In May 2003, he completed his MFA in Film Directing from the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Film Division. His thesis film, A-Alike, was licensed for a two-year broadcast run by HBO in 2003 and has won numerous awards and distinctions including: the Director's Guild of America Award for Best African-American Student Filmmaker, the National Board of Review Award for Achievement in Filmmaking, Best Short Film at the Roxbury Film Festival and the Gold Medal at the 2004 Student Academy Awards for Best Narrative Film.
Currently, Dottin completed his short narrative film, Lifted, sponsored by Fox Searchlight's program for emerging directors, the Fox Searchlab, and is in pre-production on his first feature Indelible.
Indelible tells the story of a scientist racing against time to find a cure for a disease that killed her husband and now threatens the life of her young son. The project is the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s $100,000 Feature Film grant and will go into production in January 2007.
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