WESLEY SNIPES - EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

WESLEY SNIPES is regarded as one of the most prolific producers of 1998.

Snipes has successfully ventured into the creative aspects of filmmaking while steadily building his resume with a cache of box-office hits. In 1991, he formed his own independent production company, Amen Ra Films, and its subsidiary Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television.

1998 was especially rewarding for Snipes with the successful opening of the year's cult hit "Blade," for New Line Cinema, which has grossed over $150 million worldwide. He was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, SUNY/Purchase, for his outstanding achievements in film.

Snipes produced "The Big Hit," starring Mark Wahlberg and executive produced by John Woo and Terrence Chang, and the critically acclaimed feature "Down in the Delta," which marked Dr. Maya Angelou's directorial debut and garnered several awards including a Christopher Prism and nominations in multiple categories for the Acapulco Black Film Festival, as well as an NAACP Image Award for Best Motion Picture.

Additionally, television projects distinguished Snipes as a creative force with ABC's "Futuresport," in which he starred with Dean Cain and Vanessa L. Williams. Snipes also produced the highest rated cable special of all time, TNT's "The First Tribute to the Martial Arts Masters of the 20th Century," which showcased some of the greatest innovators of the martial arts.

Snipes also serves as executive producer of a series of documentaries that he personally finances through Black Dot Media. Acting as a forum for some of the most illustrious minds and creative thinkers from the African and Afro-Caribbean culture, Black Dot Media provides a myriad of educational information, paying homage to visionaries around the world, including historians, poets, anthropologists and academically esteemed scholars, while maintaining the integrity and fundamental principles of the true African and Afro-Caribbean experience. The first in the series, "John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk," chronicling the life of Dr. John Henrik Clarke, a pre-eminent voice and authority on African and Afro-Caribbean studies, won critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997 and won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Urbanworld Film Festival in New York.

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