“Sunlight” is the inspirational story of Donald Gray’s life-long quest to save children trapped in the darkness of economic and social despair began when he honored his spiritual and moral convictions. Turning his back on a lucrative business career, he created an organization to “save one child at a time,” from a cycle of poverty, violence, drugs and family disintegration.
Director’s Statement
Donald’s quest to save at-risk children is a “real and genuine,” tale of compassion, love and perseverance. Bringing the audience into Donald and the children’s world and humanizing the realities of all those within that world is the Sunlight team’s goal.
Donald and many of the people making Sunlight possible have been my life-long friends. I grew up in a poor, single-parent home where biological abandoned a wife and three children and my life probably would have ended up quite differently had it not been for the love of relatives, teachers and other mentors. My background and relationship with Sunlight participants gave our team a connection with everyone in Donald’s world.
Donald lives the love he teaches and tries to break down barriers among races, ethnicities, social classes and political ideologies. When you understand that the challenges he and the children face in small-town North Carolina are the same as children in Chicago or Miami—indeed nationwide—his call for people to quit pointing fingers and together seek solutions is a call our society needs to answer.
Directed by Bill Webb @bill.webb_srproductions
Director of Photography Rose Caltrider @rose_calt
Produced by SilverRhino Productions @silverrhinoproductions
Original Music by Arella Atlan & Cat Dail
