On this week’s second episode of The Curse of Oak Island Season 5, the team examine a sea chest once owned by the fascinating Captain James Anderson. The privateer (legal pirate) is believed to be the same “James Anderson” who once owned Lot 26 on Oak Island before selling it to former slave Samuel Ball — a familiar name to Oak Island fans — in 1788. His chest has been passed down through his family for generations, and amazingly still contains historic documents including one showing he was a member of the Freemasons. But this is not the first time...read more...
- 11/14/2017
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
This week on The Curse of Oak Island, the team investigate the mystery of Samuel Ball. Metal detecting reveals some finds that seem to date back to the 1700s, which the team reckons could change everything. What looks like gold is also discovered at the bottom of the drill hole, though it’s impossible to tell exactly what it is through the murky water. They think this could be related to Samuel Ball, who lived between 1791 and 1846. Ball was a black man in an age when that made it tough to make a living in an already harsh frontier environment....read more...
- 1/3/2017
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Five films have received finishing funds from the Foundation for Jewish Culture's 2010 documentary program with a total of $140,000 given. This year’s grantees of the foundation’s Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film include: Joann Sfar Draws From Memory (Us/France, directed and produced by Sam Ball), a portrait of a French-Algerian graphic novelist; Regarding Susan Sontag (Us, directed and produced by Nancy Kates), a spotlight on the ...
- 12/15/2010
- Indiewire
On her seventh day at SFIFF53, Meredith Brody practices premature cinematic ejaculation and admires Founders Directing Award-winner Walter Salles, who talks to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and shares research from his upcoming On the Road. Pressures of work keep me at home through the mid-afternoon, though I was longing to see the one-time-only showing at 1:30 of a work in progress, Joann Sfar Draws from Memory, director of Gainsbourg (Je t’aime…moi non plus), which I saw the night before. It sounds right up my alley: directed by Sam Ball, double Golden Gate Award-winner at previous SFIFFs, “tracks Joann Sfar…on an odyssey through the dual Algerian and Eastern European family heritage that is the wellspring of his work on paper…followed by a discussion with Ball…about the pleasures and ...
- 5/5/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
Comedian Orlando Jones will star in the indie dramedy "Misconceptions".
Directed by Ron Satlof from a script he wrote with Ira Pearlstein, the story centers on a religiously conservative married woman from the South who receives a message from God telling her to act as a surrogate mother for two gay men.
Jones will play Terry, the hopeful parent who comes to the woman's home to micromanage her pregnancy and in the process causes havoc.
A.J. Cook (CBS' "Criminal Minds") will play Miranda, the woman who decides to carry the child for the gay couple.
Steven J. Brown is producing through his Cineglobe Prods. Ted Perkins and J.A. Bremont are serving as executive producers.
The film also stars Sarah Carter, Sam Ball, David Sutcliffe and David Moscow, who will play Jones' life partner.
Jones, whose recent feature credits include "House of D" and "Biker Boys", is repped by UTA and Management 360.
Directed by Ron Satlof from a script he wrote with Ira Pearlstein, the story centers on a religiously conservative married woman from the South who receives a message from God telling her to act as a surrogate mother for two gay men.
Jones will play Terry, the hopeful parent who comes to the woman's home to micromanage her pregnancy and in the process causes havoc.
A.J. Cook (CBS' "Criminal Minds") will play Miranda, the woman who decides to carry the child for the gay couple.
Steven J. Brown is producing through his Cineglobe Prods. Ted Perkins and J.A. Bremont are serving as executive producers.
The film also stars Sarah Carter, Sam Ball, David Sutcliffe and David Moscow, who will play Jones' life partner.
Jones, whose recent feature credits include "House of D" and "Biker Boys", is repped by UTA and Management 360.
- 1/15/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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