Harlem Hellfighters

TFI Suppport

Tribeca All Access® 2009

Logline

While fighting for his country as part of Harlem's all black 369th U.S. Infantry, a railroad porter from New York City rediscovers courage and dignity to confront racial injustices.

Robert Davenport

Screenwriter/ Producer

Robert Davenport has held various positions in creative and business affairs at Twentieth Century-Fox, CBS, Viacom, and New World Pictures. Davenport has also served as teh EVP at Soaring Eagle Productions and executive producer of several studio films and television projects, and has authored several books, including. Davenport is the winner of numerous screenwriting awards, including the UCLA Screenwriting Showcase. He received his MBA from Havard Business School adn MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA. He is a Navy veteran who made two overseas deployments as a plane commander with Patrol Squadron Forty-Four. Following his military career, Davenport attended St. John's Law School, and went on to work at the Department of Justice through the Attorney General's HOnor Law Graduate Program.

Travis Wright

Screenwriter/ Producer

Travis Wright has co-written five features with his childhood friend John Glenn, including, starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan. As a producer, Wright shepherded Glenn's directing debut,, starring Paul Walker and Piper Perabo, and Wright is currently working on, a Glenn-Wright production. As a solo screenwriter, Wright has penned Hunting the Wolf, a WWII thriller about Hitler faking his own death.

Yves Simoneau

Director