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Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Harvey Hubbell V, Joins Heroes Group Advisory Board to Help Develop Hollywood Film on Legendary Hero, Merian C. Cooper

By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted May 2, 2012, 09:37

(McLean, VA) - David C. Jamison, Executive Director and founding Board Member of the Foundation To Illuminate America's Heroes stated today, "The Foundation is proud to announce that award-winning documentary filmmaker, Harvey Hubbell V, has joined the Foundation�s International Advisory Board to assist in the development of a major Hollywood feature film on legendary hero, Merian C. Cooper and the famed Kosciuszko Squadron�

Harvey Hubbell V is the CEO/Director, Producer of Captured Time Productions, LLC, a documentary film company that has won more than 50 film and video festival awards, including four Emmys. He shares an 80-acre Avid-equipped farm with his wife, Ande Haas Hubbell, the �2001 Connecticut Filmmaker of the Year�. The company is set to release their latest documentary on dyslexia, entitled �Dislecksia: The Movie�, the result of seven years of research and development.

�Harvey Hubbell V describes himself as an �itinerant filmmaker,� said Jamison, �he has shot film from the high-rise roofs of Warsaw to the banana boats of Peru. And to support his documentary habit, he sometimes works on feature films, including a turn as Columbia Pictures community liason for the movie: �Mr. Deeds�, shot on location in New Milford, Connecticut. Mr. Hubbell brings a wealth of experience to the Foundation�s International Advisory Board, including a passion for telling the world the story of legendary Hollywood Producer and incredible hero, Merian C. Cooper, a passion he inherits from his father, Harvey Hubbell IV, who spent a lifetime collecting memorabilia regarding Cooper. And, just as the Foundation is producing the film in memory of former syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Jack Anderson, who dreamed of this Foundation, we also dedicate this mission to telling the Cooper story to the memory and dreams of Harvey Hubbell IV, for his dream of seeing this inspiring story told to the world.�

The Foundation has named Merian C. Cooper the "Greatest American Hero Of The Twentieth Century" and "Hollywood's Greatest Hero". The Foundation's mission is to produce a major Hollywood movie about Merian C. Cooper and the famed Kosciuszko Squadron he created to repay America's greatest debt in the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1921.

�Harvey Hubbell V joins a group of distinguished American and Polish experts,� said Jamison, �The International Advisory Board is comprised of experts in American and Polish history, aviation, film and production, all of whom share a passion for the story of Merian C. Cooper and the group of American and Polish aviators who formed the famed Kosciuszko Squadron to aid Poland in the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1921. This outstanding and true story of their risk for freedom in remembrance of the personal sacrifice of two Polish officers, Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Kazimierz Pulaski, who came to America�s aid during the Revolutionary War, is one that simply must be made into a feature Hollywood film for the world to see.�

The Foundation�s website at http://www.illuminateamericasheroes.com contains the story of Merian C. Cooper and the Kosciuszko Squadron, told through an embedded YouTube video, entitled: �The Greatest Story Not Yet Told!� The written film treatment, �Honor To You� can be clicked and read within the website. The website also contains a donation link which allows everyone who supports this great story and mission to make tax exempt donation of any amount. All donations will greatly help the Foundation to illuminate this heroic story to the whole world.





Resources:

www.illuminateamericasheroes.com