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Meeting David Wilson (2008)

1h 23m

Running Time

June 1, 2008
Release Date

Meeting David Wilson (2008)

Name: Meeting David Wilson
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2008-06-01

1h 23m

Running Time

June 1, 2008
Release Date

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Plot.

African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slave era. The result is this documentary, which provides a unique perspective on the long shadow cast by slavery in America. Wilson travels to North Carolina to visit the plantation where his ancestors once toiled and to meet its current owner -- a white man named David Wilson, whose slave-owning ancestors originally occupied the property.

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Cast & Crew.

David A. Wilson

Himself / Director / Writer

David H. Wilson

Himself

Stacy D. Gardner

Associate Producer

Peter Menzies

Executive Producer

Timothy Dixon

Editor

Daniel J. Woolsey

Director / Cinematography

Mathius Mack Gertz

Executive Producer

Pete Romano

Sound Designer

Maria C. Taft

Associate Producer

Rui DaSilva

Executive Producer

Barion Grant

Producer

Krystia Basil

Line Producer

Details.

Release Date
June 1, 2008

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 23m

Content Rating
NR

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2024-10-03

This Movie Is About.

slavery

racism

american history

family history

Wiki.

Meeting David Wilson is a 2008 American documentary film. It is a 90-minute video produced for initial presentation on the MSNBC cable channel. Its focus is the encounter between David A. Wilson, a black American filmmaker who grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and David B. Wilson, a descendant of a white American tobacco-planter who had owned some of the black Wilsons’ ancestors as slaves. The film was directed by Daniel Woolsey and David A. Wilson and produced by Barion Grant.

The Wilsons and Barion founded an African-American News website at NBC News entitled The Grio.