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Good Pub for The Last Adam

Olympic Gold medalist Carl Lewis, star of Descending Dove Productions' award winning feature length film, The Last Adam, was profiled on "Then and Now" on CNN and Headline News. Other recent and upcoming media featuring members of the cast and the production team include the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, OverTime Magazine, Good Day Atlanta, Rolling Out, Focus Atlanta, CinemATL, 790TheZone, and the Southern Screen Report. The film is now in post-production after wrapping a 19 day shooting schedule in Atlanta's Adams Park, Grant Park and other metropolitan neighborhoods.

Lewis plays a professional baseball player who faces a serious health challenge in the film. The film also stars Leonard Roberts ("Drumline," "He Got Game," "Joe and Max," "Love Jones, Buffy The Vampire Slayer") and the Tony Award nominated Anita Gillette. The rest of the talented cast includes Jose Yenque ("Traffic," "The Blue Diner," "Pink Punch," "Wednesday Afternoon"), and winner of the reality TV show "The Next Action Star," Corinne de Groot. The Last Adam is co-produced and co-written by Dr. Erroll Bailey and Shandra McDonald, and directed by Edford Banuel, Jr.

As the 2005 Atlanta Film Festival's Southeastern Media Winner and a 2004 finalist for the Hollywood Black Film Festival, the team behind The Last Adam has received more than $100,000 in in-kind services towards completion of the film. The film chronicles the story of six racially diverse childhood friends who are forced to revisit their beleaguered pasts when they return to their hometown in the deep south to plan the funeral of their beloved little league coach and mentor. A dramatic story with spiritual undertones, The Last Adam explores humanity through complex emotions, while addressing redemption, forgiveness, racism, sexism and diversity.

Co-writer, Dr. Bailey, is the CEO of the Atlanta Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Institute and the author of the inspirational novel "Mr. Dream Merchant," which is in pre-production as a film. McDonald is an accomplished film and television producer, director and writer, producing ten outstanding short films in the last five years that have aired on television and garnered her notoriety from the Sundance Screenwriter's Lab, the Director's Guild of America, and the Pan African Film Festival. As the 2005 recipient of IFP Market Gordon Parks Award for Emerging Directors for "A Message From Pops," Banuel is also a winner of the Showtime Black Filmmaker Showcase for Land of the Free and Unjust Cause, which aired on the network in 2003.




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