This is a story about a day in the life of Jason and Camille Robinson, a happily married couple fighting up their respective corporate ladders and working hard to conceive a baby. The day starts with the couple discussing how important today is because of what it could mean for their careers. Camille leaves to try a major civil case out of town. Jason heads to the office after putting the finishing touches on a career defining presentation, one that he will deliver to his companys board of directors later that day.
Once arriving at his office, Jason meets the mysterious Devon. Devon delivers a message to Jason that rocks the very foundation of his life. Everything he had worked so hard to achieve was instantaneously made unimportant. Jason is left with answering the most improbable yet important question in his life.
From Fear Not Productions and Director Ron Gonzalez, The Night We Died is a beautiful, thought provoking drama that compels all who watch to search their heart for what truly matters in life.
JOHN GARY LONG Story Writer, Executive Producer
John Gary Long is a native of Lorain, Ohio. He has worked in Corporate America for 15 years and holds an engineering degree from The Ohio State University and an MBA from UNC- Chapel Hill. While John has not traveled the traditional path to film making, he is very passionate about the art and feels he has found his calling. As writer of the original story The Night We Died, Long demonstrates his skill to transform the daily routine into a thought-provoking drama. In 2009, John founded Fear Not Productions with longtime friend and UNC classmate, actor Martin Ezelle. Fear Not Productions seeks to challenge everyone to not let fear limit the extraordinary things that can be achieved.
RON GONZALEZ Director, Director of Photography
Ron Gonzalez has spent the last 15 years in the film business serving as an award winning cinematographer, editor, and director. Mr. Gonzalez also helped produced the first High Definition television series pilot in the world called Texas Tales & Legends in 1999 and was senior editor for the HBO co-produced film 22. In 2004 Ron served as DP and post production supervisor for the pilot television show Quality Time for ABC Family. Ron has edited and DPd for many networks including ABC, FOX, HDNET, DISCOVERY, TRAVEL, FINE LIVING and DISNEY Channel to name a few. He received a film degree from Full Sail Film School in Orlando Fl, where he graduated second in his class and received numerous awards for his short films.
ERIC PETER SCHWARTZ Screenplay Writer
Eric Peter Schwartz has been writing and performing in the Chicago area for the last 22 years. He cut his writing teeth in teen sketch comedy shows in the late eighties and early nineties. In 1995 he joined the sketch comedy group Gag Reflex Comedy Theater -- he took over as director in 1999 and continues with the group to this day. In 2007 he became the Executive Director of The First Street Playhouse in the Chicago Suburbs (now "The Geneva Underground Playhouse").He is a published poet, has spent time as a freelance journalist, has written and performed in local radio and TV ads and has written and played with several small bands. Mr. Schwartz has also produced a great deal of online content from the internet radio series Gag Reflex Comedy Theater of the Air to the blog Monkey with a Laptop. In 2008, his short film screenplay, The Platonic Bomb was produced by Poor Child Films in Dallas, Texas.
KERRI NAVARRO Producer
Kerri Navarro, an award-winning actor, has worked in the industry for over 18 years and 6 of those years as producer, first assistant director, costume designer, extras coordinator, set decorator and actor. She was the first assistant director and associate producer for Deadmen Productions Night Crawlers. She has been a production assistant and camera operator for the Internationally Syndicated Reality TV Show, Cheaters. She was a co-writer and actor in Random Order Entertainments award-winning shorts Every Time A Bell Rings and 4 Minute Matisse. From May 2007 January 2009 she was the producer for WFAAs The Gordon Keith Show, a local weekly television show in DFW (Channel 8) for which she won a 2009 Lone Star Emmy. Kerri also is a co-founder of Random Order Entertainment.
Co- Stars Martin Ezelle and Nikki Donley at the Texas Black Film Festival.
Co-Executive Producers Martin Ezelle and John Gary Long at the Texas Black Film Festival.
Martin Ezelle, Nikki Donley, and Jalen Love with Director Ron Gonzalez and writer of the story John Gary Long at the Texas Black Film Festival.
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