The Producer

Manifold Productions. Producer/Director Michael Pack is the former president of Manifold Productions, Inc., an independent film and television company based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Pack’s credits include Rediscovering George Washington, The Fall of Newt Gingrich, The Rodney King Incident, Campus Culture Wars, and America’s Political Parties. Pack currently serves as the Senior Vice President for Television Programming at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 1992, Pack was the Director of Worldnet, the U.S. Information Agency’s television and film service. Also, he was previously co-chair of the International TV Council at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Last year, President Bush nominated and the Senate confirmed Mr. Pack to serve on the National Council of the Humanities, which oversees the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Key On-Screen Individuals in God and the Inner City

Reverend Eugene Rivers 3rd, a Pentecostal minister, is president of the Ella J. Baker House. He also founded the Boston Ten-Point Coalition, the National Ten Point Leadership Foundation, and Operation 2006.

Andre Norman, lead field organizer, Ella J. Baker House; “I’m coming from doing 14 years [in prison] myself.”

Mike Zello, program director, Teen Challenge, Capitol Heights, MD.

Dr. John DiIulio: University of Pennsylvania; senior fellow at Brookings Institution; resigned from post of executive director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives; created the Amachi program soon after he left the White House.

Dr. Richard Land, Southern Baptist Convention; president of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and is a nationally known radio host through his For Faith & Family broadcast ministry.

Reverend Barry Lynn: executive director, Citizens United for the Separation of Church and State.

Victoria Harrington: mentor to teenager Aja in Amachi program.

Rubin Ortiz: mentor to Juan in Amachi program.