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EUGENE MARTIN, Writer and Director
Philadelphia native Eugene Martin is an award-winning writer/director whose work has been screened internationally. His feature film, Edge City (1998) won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Hamptons International Film Festival. The film had its American premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival and has screened in over 15 international film festivals and at the Directors Guild of America in New York.
Martin's shorts and documentary works have been screened at the American Film Institute, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and broadcast on PBS and the Sundance Film Channel. Martin graduated with an M.F.A. in film production from Temple University in 1990. Among his short films are Invisible Cities (1991), Open Distance (1992), for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award, and Cynthia's Window (1988). Martin's first dramatic feature film, Two Plus One, premiered at the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema in 1994, and screened at the first Slamdance Film Festival in January 1995. Two Plus One was acquired for distribution by Phaedra Cinema, and screened theatrically around the country.
Martin lives in Philadelphia with his wife and three children, and produces work out of his production company, City Story Pictures.
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Father John P. Mcnamee
John P. McNamee is a Catholic priest who resides at St. Malachy's parish in Philadelphia, a poor inner city church and elementary school. Built in 1851, the imposing Gothic church once catered to the spiritual needs of the city's immigrant Catholics. Now, the church and Father McNamee's mission is to serve the residents of an area overrun with crime, drugs, poverty and despair.
In the 1960's, McNamee requested an assignment to an inner-city parish and he has been at St. Malachy's for 32 years. He is the author of two volumes of poetry, Clay Vessels and Other Poems and Endurance: The Rhythm of Faith. He is also the author and subject of Diary of a City Priest, published in 1993. In the year 2001, at 67 years old, McNamee has been an ordained priest in the Catholic Church for 41 years.
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David Morse (Father John Mcnamee)
David Morse, currently starring in the hit film Proof of Life, has established a diverse career that includes work in film, television and theatre. Morse was seen in the acclaimed feature film The Green Mile starring opposite Tom Hanks. He recently appeared in Dancer in the Dark, a highly acclaimed musical drama from director Lars Von Trier. Morse recently completed production on Scott Hicks's Hearts in Atlantis.
Morse made his motion picture debut in Richard Donner's acclaimed feature Inside Moves. He went on to star in two Sean Penn dramas, Indian Runner and The Crossing Guard. Morse's other feature film credits include Bait, Crazy in Alabama, The Negotiator, Contact, Extreme Measures, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Rock, 12 Monkeys, The Good Son, Desperate Hours, The Getaway and Personal Foul.
On television Morse is well known for his role in the Emmy winning ensemble drama "St. Elsewhere." Other television roles include the comedy series "Big Wave Dave" and telefilms such as "Murder: Live," "Prototype," "Shattered Vows," "Stephen King's 'The Langoliers'," "When Dreams Come True," "Six Against the Rock," "Cry in the Wild" and TNT's "Tecumseh: The Last Warrior."
For his appearance in Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "How I Learned to Drive," he won the DramaLogue Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Obie. Morse's role in the Los Angeles production "Of Mice and Men" earned him the DramaLogue Award. Other stage work includes the world premieres of "Redwood Curtain" by Lanford Wilson and "An Almost Holy Picture" by Heather McDonald. As a member of the Boston Repertory Company, Morse worked in over 30 productions between 1971-77. |
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