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Credits

 

Executive Producer

RIC MURPHY

 

Written and Produced 

by

RIC MURPHY

 

Original Score

PETER CAVALLO

and

JOE MINOR

 

Edited by

CALVIN PEARSON

ROBERT F. BURNS

 

Sound Editing

JOE MINOR

 

Narration

JOE MINOR

 

Visual Effects Artist

BRIAN SMITH

 

Cinematography

CHELO ABBE

 

Scholars

Dr. Joseph D. Feaster

Mr. Charles Fox

Ms. Mary Fugere

Mr. Paul Heinegg

Dr. Linda Heywood

Ms. Renee Ingram

Mr. Júlio T. Leitão

Rev. Dr. Khadijah Matin

Ms. Martha McCartney

Dr. Evelyn McDowell

Dr. Shelley V. Murphy

Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander

Mr. Calvin Pearson

Dr. John Thornton

 Mr. Brendan Wolfe

Mr. Paul Wright

 

Music

Shockwave-Sound.com

 

Video Stock Footage:

Shutterstock.com

Pond5.com

 

Costume Designer:

RUTH HUNT

 

Hair and Makeup:

SANDRA DANCE

Sponsors:

Colonial Williamsburg, Rockefeller Foundation

Hampton Convention and Visitors Bureau

National Center for Community Strategies

National Park Service

Norfolk State University

North American Management

Preservation VirginiaP

Project 1619

Society of the First African Families of English America

Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

Virginia Department of Historic Resources

Virginia  Department of Humanities

 

Site Locations:

CHIPPOKES STATE PARK

SURRY COUNTY VIRGINIA

 

HAMPTON, VIRGINIA

 

Legal:

JOSEPH D. FEASTER, JR.

Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, P.C.

Copyright. 2022. Verity Media LLC

All right, reserved.

 

All material is protected by copyright laws of the

United States and all countries throughout the world.

Verity Media is the author of this motion picture

for the purpose of  copyright of this film,

or any part thereof, is infringement of the relevant

copyright and will be  subject to the infringer to

severe civil and criminal penalties.

 

SONGS

“THE PROPOSITION”

Written by Peter Cavallo

Courtesy of Sounds Scape

 

“IN THE TEARS”

Written by Peter Cavallo

Courtesy of Sounds Scape

 

“ALONE IN THE CAFÉ”

Written by Peter Cavallo

Courtesy of Sounds Scape

 

“HOMELAND”

Written and performed by Joe Minor

Courtesy of Private Stock Publishing

 

“WHERE IS MY SON?”

Written and performed by Joe Minor

Courtesy of Private Stock Publishing

 

“THINGS FORGOTTEN”

Written and performed by Joe Minor

Courtesy of Private Stock Publishing

 

“OUR BLOODLINE LIVES”

Written and performed by Joe Minor

Courtesy of Private Stock Publishing

 

"REFLECTIONS OF FREEDOM"

Written and Performed by Joe Minor

Courtesy of Private Stock Publishing

 

Postlude Music

OUR BLOODLINE LIVES©2022

by Joe Minor

Full audio/video found on our website:

 

 

www.arrivalfirstafricans.com

 

Full audio/video found on our website:

www.arrivalfirstafricans.com

 

 

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