HANGING BY A THREAD - EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS VIOLA DAVIS AND JULIUS TENNON - A FEATURE-LENGTH FAMILY DRAMA - Red Wall ...
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A F E AT U R E - L E N G T H FA M I LY D R A M A
HANGING BY A THREAD
E X E C UT IV E PROD U CER S VIO LA D AVI S AN D JUL IU S T EN NON
WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY C R A I G T. W I L L I A M S
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V I O L A D AV I
Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of lm, television, and theater and has
won rave reviews for her intriguingly diverse roles. Audiences across the United
States and internationally have admired her for her work- including her
celebrated, Oscar-winning performance in Fences (2017) and her Oscar
nominated performances in The Help (2011), Doubt (2008). Davis won the
Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
for her work in ABC's How To Get Away With Murder, making her the rst black
woman in history to take home the award. In her career, Davis has given her
audiences a substantial list of performances, earning a cascade of awards and
nominations.
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JULIUS TENNO
lm, television, and theatre veteran with over
thirty years of experience. A native of Austin, Texas, he began as both a
thespian and a star linebacker. Mr. Tennon’s notable screen credits include:
Fame, Friday Night Lights, Dazed and Confused, Lonesome Dove, and popular
television shows such as Criminal Minds, Rizzoli & Isles, ER, The Practice, Mad
About You, NYPD Blue, and Moesha, among many others. In 1999, Julius was
blessed to meet the love of his life, Viola Davis, on the set of the CBS series City
of Angels. A month after meeting, they began dating, and were married four
years later. A couple in every sense of the word, their greatest joy comes from
sharing both their life and art together. Julius and Viola have shared both the
stage and screen, appearing in such notable projects as Intimate Apparel at the
Mark Taper Forum, CBS’ Laws of Chance, The Architect, and Life is Not a
Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story, Lila and Eve and upcoming a VR version
of Othello that will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
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lms Allergic To Nuts and Drawing Angel. Both lms have been
seen on several TV stations nationally and in lm festivals in the US and around
the world. Rosalyn was awarded “Emerging Filmmaker” at the Cine Noir Film
Festival in the busy lm production city of Wilmington, North Carolina. With over
a dozen lm directing credits including: The Last Piece, Twinkle, BFF, Moth To A
Flame and Driving Fish. Rosalyn also directed the re-enactment portion in the
groundbreaking documentary Black Sorority Project
A graduate of Howard University and an MFA from Yale School of Drama, Roz
has a keen insight into actor-director relationship, she is celebrated as an
“actors director.” She served as on-set acting coach for HBO’s 2nd season of
the hit series “In Treatment.” Rosalyn was hired by the prestigious Cinereach
Foundation to coach Sundance directors on their sophomore projects, most
notably Terrance Nance, creator of HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness
As an actor, Rosalyn’s professional experience includes Broadway, Film and TV.
She has acted with Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry
and Tom Cruise. She appears nightly in the hit Broadway play To Kill A
Mockingbird and Rosalyn can be seen in feature lm“Miss Virginia” starring
Orange Is The New Black’s Uzo Aduba.
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lm production company that he runs with his wife, Rosalyn
Coleman Williams. Craig has produced over 50 lm projects including
independent short lms, promotional videos, educational lms, actor reels and
the groundbreaking documentary Black Sorority Project.
Craig’s original TV pilot How Ya Like Me Now, about the 80’s rap rivalry between
Kool Moe Dee and LL Cool J won 2nd place in the prestigious 2020 Page
International Screenwriting Competition. This script was also a nalist in the
2020 Film Independent TV Lab, the 2020 Cinestory TV Retreat & Fellowship
Competition, the 2020 Stowe Story Lab Fellowship, the 2020 Seriesfest Pitch-A-
Thon and the 2020 Orchard Project Episodic Lab. How Ya Like me now was
chosen for the 2019 IFP Episodic Lab, was a nalist in the Sundance 2019
Episodic Lab
Allergic, another original pilot was a 2nd Rounder in the 2019 Austin Film
Festival and was the winner of the ABFF/Turner best original 30 minute comedic
pilot
“Title VII” is a feature screenplay he co-wrote with writer/director Nicole Franklin,
was a nalist for HBO Best Feature Film at the Martha's Vineyard African
American Film Festival
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SIMONE MISSICK L A K E I T H S TA N F I E L D
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Playing Ernie - Intense, artistic,
endearin
Simone is best known for her role as the Lakeith is best known for his roles in Get
lead of the CBS TV Series “All Rise” and Out, Sorry To Bother You, Judas and the
Detective Misty Knight on Luke Cage. Black Messiah and the TV Series Atlanta.
ROB MORGA SOLANGE KNOWLES
IDEAL CAST
Rob is known for Mudbound, Monsters Solange is known for her Grammy
and Men, This is Us and Stranger winning album, Seat At The Table. She is
Things. an actress, singer-songwriter, and the
younger sister of Beyoncé.
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Rosalyn and Craig met as actors on the set of the short lm "The Window",
which was selected to be part of the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. As they
traveled to promote the lm, they fell in love. And on November 17, 2001, they
married
For their new life, in a new apartment. Roz and Craig decided to do something
neither had the guts to do: paint a wall red. With the boldness and passion of
the new wall, Red Wall Productions was conceived. In 2002 they launched the
company with the support of family, friends and colleagues. Brick by brick Red
Wall is growing
Rosalyn and Craig feel strongly that it is the job of everyone with strength and
means to use their talents to help make the world better.
From creating scholarships to mentoring emerging actors, writers and
lmmakers, to contributing to crowd funding campaigns, Red Wall Productions
believes in giving back.
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