I’ve added “Greensboro’s Child,” to Google Video. If you are unfamiliar with this documentary, watch it then scroll down for the 411 on how I did this award winning documentary.

Greensboro’s Child was totally funded by myself, hence the term Independent documentary. I’m not a trust fund baby and most of the time I didn’t have access to equipment to finish editing it. I worked as a pizza delivery driver throughout most of this process. I am proud of what this story tells. See what others have to say about it.

Interesting Facts:

1996

• Started “Greensboro’s Child,” as a class project at UNCG
• Worked 30 hours a week delivering pizza for Pieworks on West Market St.
• Full time student at UNCG
• Finished “Greensboro’s Child,” as a 12 minute class project

1998

• Graduated from UNCG
• Moved to NYC and worked on GCTV Used their cameras and editing bay
• Put together a production company with a couple of professional buddies
• Recorded the press conference of Kwame’s release from prison
• Working full time with Pieworks on Lawndale Drive

2000

• Began shooting feature length film “Burying Merriweather” as the producer and main lead
• Shot the film every weekend for 18 months
• Worked as Location Scout and Camera Operator on History Channel’s Lawbreakers: The Greensboro Massacre

2001

• Began interviewing more people for Greensboro’s Child
• Continued to edit at our production facility on FCP
• Finished the Rough Cut of Greensboro’s Child
• Aired Greensboro’s Child on GCTV
• Production company split up

2002

• Submitted Greensboro’s Child to 10 film festivals

Officially Selected to:

• North Carolina Film and Video Festival {Best Independent Documentary}
• Digital Visions Film Festival {Best Researched Documentary}
• Lexington Splitscreen Film Festival
• Detroit Docs Film Festival

2003

• Added a score to Greensboro’s Child
• Corrected audio problems
• Edited from 90 minutes to 75 minutes
• Began working full time at The Brooks Group as their Video Producer

2004

• Continued to refine and tweak
• Submitted the documentary to different distributors
• No one was interested in distributing it

2005

• Finished the final edit.

2006

• Authored “Greensboro’s Child,” to DVD
• Held six screenings around Greensboro to tell the story of that day

Related posts:

1. [Audio] Conversation with Adam Zucker Director of Greensboro: Closer To The Truth
2. Greensboro’s Child
3. Greensboro’s Child is Downloadable
4. Tonight at the Carolina Theater… Greensboro: Closer to The Truth
5. “The Ground Truth” Documentary Screening In Greensboro, Monday 11/27/06
6. Almost Missed It
7. Upcoming Conversation: Documentary Filmmaker Brett Ingram
8. Growing Process With Visual Proof