A Life Lived: the Stephen Crane Story

Harlan D. Whatley holds a BA in English from the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC. While in Charleston, he wrote articles for VIEW magazine and performed in television commercials with Orlando Jones (The Replacements, Devolution) and O'Neal Compton (The Boyfriend School, Diabolique). Whatley received an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College/CUNY and was an intern for Ric Burns at Steeplechase Productions, where he worked on the ANDY WARHOL and EUGENE O'NEILL documentaries for PBS. He taught college/university media courses at institutions in New York City, China, the UAE and Texas and was an extra in the dramatic feature film, THE IRON ORCHARD. He was the Director of the West Texas Film Festival for four years and has won awards for his TV pilot trilogy set in Texas that includes: THE BASIN, MY MUSE and THE OASIS ON THE GHETTO.

Jared Rush loves a good story and helping others create one. After working with a film distribution company in 2016, he started THIRD MAN ENTERTAINMENT in early 2017 to help connect those in the industry, assist writers with their scripts, and became a talent manager. Shortly after he started his company, he became a film producer and his first project was on the independent psychological film, I'M GOING TO KILL SOMEONE THIS FRIDAY, where he was co-creator/writer and executive producer. Jared has a passion for his craft and helping impact people through it. “And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.” Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life