McClinton Karma Stanley 

McCLINTON KARMA STANLEY is an international filmmaker with well over thirty years of experience working on over one hundred films, videos, and television production credits as a director, cinematographer and editor. "Take No Prisoners" is the first feature length movie that McClinton Stanley has directed. Mr. Stanley has worked with Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Melvin Van Peeples and Lindsey Barrett. 

McClinton Stanley was raised in Denmark, South Carolina and graduated from Voorhees High School in 1963.  He served four years in the US Navy with two tours in Viet‑Nam. Mr. Stanley was trained in the film industry from 1968 to 1972 at the National Educational Television and Film Workshop, the Community Film Workshop and the Third World Cinema in New York City. 

He produced his first film in 1971, "TO LIVE AGAIN", a documentary about the Ibo people's struggle for survival and national unity after the Biafra War in Nigeria. In 1978, while living in Nigeria, Stanley won the “Best Television Drama Award”, for "MOMENT OF TRUTH", at the First National Nigeria Television Authority Drama Festival. Back in the USA he was part of a film team that won the “Golden Eagle Award” in 1985, for the Most Prestigious Documentary of the Year, "DIGGERS", an historical account of the development and building of  the Panama Canal.  

In l995 he directed "SARAH" which won  the “Best Music Video of  the Year”, at The Gabon West Africa Music Awards. Stanley was one of the cinematographers for the film "WHEN WE WERE KINGS", the 1997 Academy Award winner for The Best Documentary Feature.  

In 1995 Korna Stonz Productions, Inc. was created to foster the new direction Mr. Stanley was taking in his career. He became more committed to developing meaningful projects for future production and to create services that small businesses, non-profit organizations, the faith community and those in the arts could utilize. He expanded his production company to include professional, high-quality digital video (DV) production and internet services and content for film, video and internet production.  

He is the director, editor and co-executive producer of  “BONE BRISTLE“, a work-in-progress which documents the spoken word community. He directed and produced the CFC media campaign for the United Way of New York City featuring actor Morgan Freeman. 

Mr. Stanley developed a 30 minute television show, “MONEY MATTTERS” about the “how to's” of entrepreneurship with a demo that he produced and directed. He produced twenty-six, thirty minute cable television shows called “HARVEST REPORT” hosted by Kermit Eddy, President of the Black United Fund of New York and Ron Daniels, President of The Institute of Constitutional Rights.

He has been an adjunct professor at City College of New York where he taught in the Film Department. Currently, McClinton is a cinematographer for the “Peabody Award” winning television series, "Russell Simmons Presents Def  Poetry”, airing on the HBO cable network. He also produced a  music video for a rap group, “A.B.L.”, Dech'm Records. He is a two time grant recipient winner for film from The Brooklyn Arts Council where served as a judge for film in 2004.

DEBORAH BATTLE POINTER

Deborah Battle Pointer  is Co-Executive Producer of the Peabody Award winning television show “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry”, a television series on the HBO cable network and Executive Consultant to the Tony Award winning  Broadway show, “Def Broadway on Broadway”.  “Ungodly Council” is the first feature film that she has produced. She created and produced at the Chashama Theater on 42^nd Street in NYC “The Urban Theatre Arts Festival” which featured eight (8) dramatic plays written by young playwrights and “Bone Bristle”, a spoken word documentary.  

Deborah was born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut and received a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from SUNY Cortland and a Master of Science degree in education from Cambridge College. The issues of access and equity have been the cornerstones of her academic career. For the past thirty years she has worked in higher education, served her community as a volunteer and maintained her involvement in the creative arts.

 In October, 2001, under their company, Bone Bristle Entertainment LLC, Deborah and her business partners created a poetry anthology published by Random House, "Bum Rush the Page". The anthology featured the works of 200 poets and has sold over 20,000 copies to date. 

Deborah was the Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at  Cornell University and the first black woman to be the Director of Admissions at the Columbia University School of Engineering and the first black Director of Financial Aid at Columbia College of Columbia University. She has also served as the Director of Financial Aid at SUNY Downstate Medical Center serving undergraduates and medical students. While living in Ithaca, New York she was elected to the Ithaca School Board where she served two terms. 

Deborah is currently a consultant to the Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital at Downstate where she is involved in development and community outreach and an adjunct professor at Metropolitan College in the Human Services Department. She is also one of a few African American Christmas and Kwanzaa ornament designers and was featured as an Editor’s Choice in “Decorative Gifts and Accessories” magazine.  

Ms. Pointer has authored several magazine articles on financing a college education and has worked on a series of videotapes on financial aid for students. The videotapes aired on the Public Broadcasting television stations in the New York tri-state area. For many years she was a consultant to ESPN on selecting the High School Athlete of the Year. Deborah is currently a member of the Brooklyn Borough President's Task Force on BCAT, former President of the Rutland Road Block One Association and a member of numerous community based fundraising committees. She has co-hosted a weekly cable access television show “Free Wheeling” and is currently in development with two new shows. Deborah is a published poet and recently completed her first novel about miscegenation.