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 before [...]

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 was [...]

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 back over these [...]

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 [...]