Michelle S. Mullen and Patricia A. Bradley are the co-founders of One Life, One Legacy® Films, located near Asheville, NC. The documentarians preserve the legacies of people, places and times through artfully crafted films. Films include “Scanning History”, capturing the life and work of Dr. George A. Jones, Western North Carolina’s most celebrated historian, and “Daddy, What Did You Do in the War?”, about a WWI Virginian soldier who told of his experiences in a series of letters saved by his daughter. Designed to entertain, educate and inspire, their historically based documentary films blend archival photography, vintage film and audio, artifacts & artwork and multi-media with interviews and original soundtracks for a rich storytelling experience.

A native Texan, Michelle Mullen has a BA in Theatre Arts and English from Texas Tech University. During her 20 years in New York, she led creative marketing and product development for global consumer product companies. She has researched, written, and directed content for everything from marketing pitches and brand messaging to Disney character scripts for worldwide brands. As a film and theatre fan, she especially enjoys writing and directing product sizzle videos. Michelle is a writing graduate of The Children’s Institute of Literature in Connecticut and studied Art History and Literature at The New School in New York City. These artistic interests and her love of archival preservation continue as a filmmaker focused on historical research and scouting for archival materials to craft compelling film stories. Cinematic soundtracks are also a personal passion, and for her, the highly emotional partner to a film’s visuals. She studies film composers and plays her own original piano music reflective of the genre. Since 2013, Michelle’s home and heart has been in the majestic mountains of North Carolina.

The most recent historical documentary, To Protect and Preserve: Historic Flat Rock’s Legacy to Keep, unveils the history of Flat Rock, North Carolina, a small American Village in the Blue Ridge Mountains established in 1807. The film opens with the land of the Cherokee, followed by the Early Explorers, First Settlers, Rice Planters, Enslaved and Freedmen, impacting transgenerational descendant lives to this day. An archivally rich film of historical American storytelling, it features historians, preservationists, community residents and first settler descendants of “The Little Charleston of the Mountains.” Historic Flat Rock is the largest Historic District in the state of North Carolina due to the efforts of HFR, Inc., a non-profit volunteer organization founded in 1968 to protect and preserve its cultural history, landmarks, heritage trees and natural spaces.