Meeting David Wilson (2008)
1h 23m
Running Time
June 1, 2008Release Date
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 / Writer / Director
David H. Wilson
Himself
Timothy Dixon
Editor
Daniel J. Woolsey
Director / Cinematography
Maria C. Taft
Associate Producer
Pete Romano
Sound Designer
Peter Menzies
Executive Producer
Rui DaSilva
Executive Producer
Barion Grant
Producer
Mathius Mack Gertz
Executive Producer
Stacy D. Gardner
Associate Producer
Krystia Basil
Line Producer
Details.
Release DateJune 1, 2008
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 23m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
slavery
family history
racism
american 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.
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