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BLACK CARD a PETE CHATMON picture
Short Film | Drama | Comedy | Satire
Membership Has Its Challenges

In a culture requiring an ID card and commitment to the code, an African-American couple is
about to find out just how far the boundaries can be pushed…
Synopsis
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BLACK CARD | a PETE CHATMON picture Membership Has Its Challenges
It would be just another day for Leonard, except The Commission, a shadow organization tasked with keeping
members up to snuff on their “blackness”, is hot on his trail for his latest infraction. An evening with the love of his
life, Lona, goes off course as a missing ID card escalates into questions of loyalty, life, and love.

Director’s Note
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WHO ARE YOU? Three words that perhaps form the biggest question we face as individuals
and one posed in film since the medium began. “Black Card” continues in this tradition, asking
to whom must one be loyal and at what price? Should we lose individuality for the sake of
community … is the happiness of our loved ones more important than our own?
Through a delicate mixture of comedy, satire, and ultimately drama, “Black Card” captures the
journey of one couple trying to answer the above questions. The universality of this issue shines
through the specifics of their story, creating a reflection on what we all experience.
- Pete Chatmon, January 2015

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Cast
Dorian Missick!
“Leonard”!
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Credits Include:!
“Annie”!
“SouthLAnd”!
“Big Words”
Simone Missick!
“Lona”!
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Credits Include:!
“Ray Donovan”!
“Taste of Romance”!
“Voicemail”
Hisham Tawfiq!
“The Commissioner”!
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Credits Include:!
“The Blacklist”!
“30 Rock”!
“Gun Hill”
Valence Thomas!
“DuVay”!
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Credits Include:!
“Taxi Brooklyn”!
“Men In Black 3”!
“Notorious”
Novella Nelson!
“Marcy”!
!
Credits Include:!
“30 Rock”!
“Antwone Fisher”
Malikha Mallette!
“Agent Fields”!
!
Credits Include:!
“Person of Interest”!
“Epic”!
“One Life to Live”

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Cast [cont’d]
Stephen Hill!
Credits Include:!
“Boardwalk Empire”!
“Political Animals”!
“Jack of the Red Hearts”
BLACK CARD | a PETE CHATMON picture
Vladimir Versailles as a Commission Agent
Simone Missick as Lona | Dorian Missick as Leonard
Michael Markham!
Credits Include:!
“Law & Order”!
“The Sonnet Project”!
“Code to a Forgotten Tale”
Erika Myers!
Credits Include:!
“Law & Order: SVU”!
“Let Them Wear Towels”!
“12 Steps to Recovery”
April Matthis!
Credits Include:!
“Wendell and the Lemon”!
“Elevator Repair Service”!
Vladimir Versailles!
Credits Include:!
“Public Morals”!
“Orange is the New Black”!
“Mooz-Lum”
Nasser Metcalfe!
Credits Include:!
“My Brother”!
“Tennessee”!
“Disciplinary Actions”

Production Details
TRT: 14 Minutes!
Format: RED Epic !
Location: NY / NJ!
Completed: Winter ’14!
USA
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The Commission Manual

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Crew
Pete Chatmon!
Director, !
Executive Producer
Christina DeHaven!
Producer
Pete Chatmon is the guy you want behind the
lens. His debut feature, “Premium”, starred Zoe
Saldana and Dorian Missick and premiered on
Showtime. Chatmon also wrote, produced, and
directed “761st”, a documentary on the first black
tank battalion in WWII, narrated by Andre
Braugher.!
!
Chatmon received the 2008 Tribeca Film Institute
"All Access" Program's Creative Promise
Narrative Award for the screenplay “$FREE.99”,
written in collaboration with Candice Sanchez
McFarlane. He has directed content for ad
agencies, Porsche, The Salvation Army, and other
brands. His career began in 2001 with the
Sundance selection of his NYU thesis film “3D”,
starring Kerry Washington.
Tony Patrick!
Writer, Producer
Tony Patrick, HouYork native (half Houstonian,
half New Yorker) is a graduate of NYU’s Dramatic
Writing Program. After a brief stint as an NBC
Page and assistant producer at Grey Advertising,
Tony sold the feature-length screenplay “Full of
It” (also known as the international television
comedy “Big Liar on Campus”) to New Line
Cinema (2002) and worked as a staff writer on
UPN’s “Rock Me, Baby” (2003-04). !
!
After a six year hiatus in Europe and Southeast
Asia, Tony returned stateside with two short
documentaries, a music album, and numerous TV
and feature film scripts under his belt. His creator-
owned comic book, “X-ED”, will be released by
Black Mask Studios in Spring 2015.
A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts,
Christina works as a production manager, line
producer, and producer on numerous short films,
features, documentaries, commercials, and music
videos. Several of her films have played at
Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, and HBO. She also co-
produced two feature length documentaries, “My
Uncle Berns”, which aired on HBO, and “761st”,
an independent documentary about the first
African-American tank battalion to enter combat
in WWII. !
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Christina is also a member of the Producers Guild
of America and is currently serving as the Area
Head of Production Supervision for NYU’s
Undergraduate Film Program, while teaching her
course, Producing the Short Screenplay.

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Crew [cont’d]
Dylan Verrechia!
Cinematographer,!
Producer
Dylan Verrechia is an award-winning
cinematographer. Born in Paris and raised in the
Caribbean, he graduated from New York
University before working with directors
including Jean Rouch, Sam Pollard, Spike Lee,
Todd Solondz, Kim Peirce, Sonia Gonzalez, Pete
Chatmon, and more.!
!
His commercial clients include ARTE, AOL,
Atlantic Records, Conde Nast, Funny or Die,
HGTV, Huffington Post, PBS, VH1, and more.
Fluent in English, French, and Spanish, Dylan has
worked across the USA, Mexico, Guatemala,
Brazil, South Africa, India, France, Italy, Spain,
Siberia, and the UK.
K.A. Miille is a multi-talented editor whose work
spans feature narratives, documentaries,
commercials, and music videos. Her narrative
experience includes the Peabody award-winning
“A Huey P. Newton Story”, “Miracle’s Boys”, both
directed by Spike Lee, “Premium”, directed by
Pete Chatmon, and an experimental film “Who
Killed Bob Marley”, directed by Roger G. Smith &
Executive Produced by Steven Soderbergh.!
!
Her documentary work includes the critically
acclaimed “Through A Lens Darkly”, directed by
Thomas Allen Harris (Sundance, 2014), the
Peabody, Emmy, and duPont award-winning
black history series, “The African Americans:
Many Rivers to Cross”, hosted by Henry Louis
Gates, and “Still, The Children Are Here”,
produced by Mira Nair.
K.A. Miille!
Editor
Dorian Missick!
Producer
In 2002, Missick made his professional acting
debut in “Two Weeks Notice”, playing Tony, Hugh
Grant's right-hand man/limo driver. The exposure
led to parts in TV shows including “NYPD Blue”,
“Law & Order”, “Now and Again”, and “Buffy the
Vampire Slayer”, as well as roles in movies such as
“Undermind”, “50 Ways to Leave a Lover”, “A
Message from Pops”, “Freedomland”, and “Two
Guns”. !
!
An audition for “Antwone Fisher”, and
subsequent meeting with Denzel Washington, led
to a role in “The Manchurian Candidate”. Soon
after, Missick got a role playing Elvis in “Lucky
Number Slevin", and soon afterward landed his
first leading role in “Premium”, alongside Zoe
Saldana. He can currently be seen in “Annie” and
the upcoming “Breaking Bad” spin-off “Better Call
Saul”.

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Crew [cont’d]
Sam Miille!
Sound Designer
Sam Miille is an award-winning sound designer
having worked throughout the department as a
sound mixer, sound effects editor, sound editor, and
supervising sound editor. His work spans across the
spectrum from narrative and documentary to shorts
and features. Most recently, Sam has worked on
“The Wolf of Wall Street”, Life of Pi”, “Hugo”,
“Boardwalk Empire”, and “Shutter Island”.
Nasser Metcalfe as a Commission Agent | Hisham Tawfiq as The Commissioner
Erika Myers & Stephen Hill as Commission Agents | Valence Thomas as DuVay
Eric Lewis (ELEW)!
Composer
Piano iconoclast ELEW is making a substantial
impression on the music world with a thunderous
new style of playing: an inspired melding of
ragtime, rock and pop that he calls Rockjazz. ELEW
has toured the world, recorded, and performed
continuously with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at
Lincoln Center Orchestra, Elvin Jones, Roy
Hargrove, and Cassandra Wilson, among others. He
won the 1999 Thelonious Monk International Piano
Competition, his mesmerizing piano theatrics even
then hinting at the new musical paradigm he would
one day create. He has scored Pete Chatmon’s
features “Premium” and “761st” among other films.

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Production Stills
Pete Chatmon directs the talent
Scenes 4, 8, 10, and 12
Malikha Mallette and April Matthis
as Agents Fields & Winters
Ready for the first shot
Pete Chatmon and Dylan Verrechia
discuss the frame
Scene 8 rolls before the camera From script to shooting script

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Behind The Scenes
Snippet 1: Scene 1, Shot 1 on the MOVI!
https://vimeo.com/113880655
Click Image to Play OR Visit the Links
Snippet 2: The Missicks Discuss Day 1!
Snippet 3: Director Pete Chatmon Discusses Day 1!
Snippet 4: DP and Director Discuss the Shoot!
Snippet 5: The 2 Leads Wrap on Day 2!
Snippet 6: The Blocking of Scene 7 !
Snippet 7: Early Takes of Scene 10!
Days 1 & 2

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Credits THE PLAYERS!
Dorian Missick! ! ! Leonard!
Simone Missick! ! ! Lona!
Hisham Tawfiq! ! ! The Commissioner!
Novella Nelson! ! ! Marcy!
Stephen Hill! ! ! Agent Rolle!
Erika Myers! ! ! Agent DuPane!
Malikha Mallette!! ! Agent Fields!
Valence Thomas! ! ! DuVay!
April Matthis! ! ! Agent Winters!
Michael Markham! ! Lance!
Vladimir Versailles! ! Commission Agent!
Nasser Metcalfe! ! ! Commission Agent!
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THE FILMMAKERS!
Pete Chatmon ! ! ! Director, Executive Producer!
Christina DeHaven! ! Producer!
Dorian Missick! ! ! Producer!
Tony Patrick! ! ! Writer, Producer!
Dylan Verrechia! ! ! Cinematographer, Producer!
Kim Miille! ! ! Editor!
Andrew Droege! ! ! Production Designer!
Tysha Ampadu! ! ! Costume Designer!
Sam Miille! ! ! Sound Designer!
Eric Lewis! ! ! Composer!
Peter Hart! ! ! Assistant Director!
Nikola Chappelle!! ! Sound Mixer!
Michael Louis Brown! ! Additional Sound Mixing!
Tamara Delbridge!! ! Key Hair & Make-Up!
Megan Johnson! ! ! Hair & Make-Up!
Chuck Brownlee! ! ! Boom Operator!
Jeff Clanet! ! ! Assistant Camera!
Joel Kingsbury! ! ! Gaffer!
Pierson Andreas! ! ! Gaffer, 1st AC!
Isik Kavuzlu! ! ! Graphic Designer!
Steve Schioppo! ! ! Key Set PA!
Gabriel Clermont!! ! Location Manager!
Marabigo! ! ! Titles
SPECIAL THANKS!
The Chatmon Family! ! Jill Hubbard!
Anthony Q. Artis! ! ! Eric Van’t Zelfden!
Movin’ On Up Films, LLC! ! Wayne McElroy!
Allison Rhone! ! ! Teneshia Warner!
Egami Consulting!! ! In’Kosi Cafe!
New York University! ! Rosanne Limoncelli!
Brandon Burgess! ! ! AJ | Sunny Limousine Company!
Alexander Call! ! ! Hertz Entertainment Services!
Gigi Dement! ! ! Tenealle Santillon! ! !
Brenda Jones! ! ! David Schoner | NJ Film Commission!
Chigozie Onyema!! ! Lt. Purcell, Newark Police Department!
Rachel Velazquez !! ! Sgt. Pedro Caetono, Newark Police Dept.!
Erica Watson! ! ! Nedra McClyde!
Tahir Jetter! ! ! Matt McDonough, Arts & Entertainment!
Raqeeb & Seni Green! ! Edward Grodon Berra!
Gary St. Clare! ! ! Jamall & Hendrix Troupe!
Eric Lewis! ! ! Eva Woolridge!
Khalid Semper! ! ! Darik Bernard!
Tysha Ampadu! ! ! Jocelyn Jacobs!
Meah Pace! ! ! Jarred Solomon!
Nefertiti Jones! ! ! Marcy Duvert!
Clive Salmon! ! ! Mike Warner!
Jean Claude Billmaier
The Black Card

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Production Company
Double7 Images (D7I) is a full service Media + Marketing
Collective in NYC. Recent film projects include the romantic-
comedy “PREMIUM” (Showtime Networks), starring
Dorian Missick (“Annie”, “Better Call Saul”, “SouthLAnd”),
Zoe Saldana (“Avatar”, “Star Trek”), and Hill Harper (“CSI:
NY”, “He Got Game”), as well as the feature documentary
“761st”, about the first black tank battalion in WWII,
narrated by Emmy-Award winning actor Andre Braugher. !
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D7I's work has screened at over 40 acclaimed festivals
around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival,
won awards at the Tribeca Film Festival, and been well
received by critics, bloggers, and audiences alike. !
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D7I's commercials and music videos have played on BET
and VH1 as well as generated millions of hits on YouTube
and other social media platforms. The company has been
recognized by Fox Business Channel for its video campaigns
and profiled by MTV for its innovative approach in
conquering the changing digital landscape.
d7i.co
“Premium” “761st” “$FREE.99”!
Winner Creative Promise!
Award, Tribeca All Access!
2008
Nationwide Tour Producing !
Real-Time Video Content !
for Social Media
Vespa 946 Global Launch !
at Bulgari NYC

Contact
Pete Chatmon!
Director | Executive Producer!
pete@d7i.co!
973.420.7294
Double7 Images!
300 Communipaw Avenue!
Suite 162!
Jersey City, New Jersey 07304
/ blackcardmovie

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