All Entries Tagged With: "The Barber’s Diaries"
The Last Black Man in Town
Let me begin by reaching out – I would welcome your ideas, suggestions, connections to get a film/television documentary project into high gear. Let me share something about it. It’s a true story of an intellectual, self-taught scholar and quiet man who made his living as a barber in a tiny Illinois farm community just [...]
Video Story Treatment: The Barber’s Diaries
I have been working for some months with Outpost Worldwide – an indie film and cinema HD video production studio – and filmmaker/director Kevin Willmott to bring a remarkable, very timely and inspiring story to television screens … and, hopefully, the motion picture screens. It’s The Barber’s Diaries, the story of Charles Everett Ellis, who [...]
Media Coverage of “The Barber’s Diaries”
Really nice story in a local Illinois newspaper about the diaries of Charles Everett Ellis, the central subject of a television documentary project I am producing. “Black barber in Altamont focus of documentary,” writes journalist Bill Grimes for the Effingham Daily News. His story continues … ALTAMONT — “Forty years ago today, by Jingo. Looking [...]
The Barber’s Diaries
The motion picture project I’m involved with – The Barber’s Diaries – is moving forward at increasing speed. Director and screenwriter Kevin Willmott (“CSA: Confederate States of America” and “Bunker Hill“) has joined the project. Outpost Worldwide is the production company. The Barber’s Diaries is the true story of Charles Ellis, a black barber who [...]
