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Roland Waddell

Filmmaker. Storyteller. Producer.

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Wrapped in North Carolina · August 2025

Feature Film

The Bard

“The Bard,” telling the true story of George Moses Horton, the first Black poet to be published in America while enslaved, a feat punishable by death. Horton — to be played by Gyasi — wrote love poems and anti-slavery protests, and was assisted by the white wife of a UNC Chapel Hill professor, who eventually became an anti-abolitionist.

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Documentary

Valor at New Market Heights

In September 1864, on a stretch of land just outside Richmond, Virginia, thousands of United States Colored Troops charged fortified Confederate positions in one of the most courageous assaults of the Civil War. Many did not survive. Fourteen were awarded the Medal of Honor. Their actions helped turn the tide of the war. And yet, their story remains largely unknown. Help us with the Development Stage of this project. Donate Now

The Filmmaker

“Every story I tell is a search for truth — the kind that lives in the spaces between words, in a glance held a moment too long, in the silence before the curtain rises.”

— Roland Waddell

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Roland is actively developing new feature film and television projects. If you're a producer, distributor, financier, or member of the press, he'd love to hear from you.

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