R. Carter Gray is a freelance journalist, screenwriter and Vietnam-era vet, who served as a military intelligence specialist with a Top Secret clearance in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Cairo after being drafted in 1972. Gray has achieved runner-up, finalist and semi-finalist honors in three international film-festival screenwriting competitions for THE WIND WHISPERS MARY and COUNTING COUP.
THE WIND WHISPERS MARY is the story of a disabled American vet who engages an African-American college professor in a discussion about the origins of mankind, Leonardo da Vinci’s “vandalized” fresco The Last Supper and the racial identity of Jesus. COUNTING COUP recounts the story of the Hidatsa Indian tribe of South Dakota and Missouri and their loss and recovery of a medicine bundle used in rainmaking ceremonies from a New York museum and its eccentric curator George Heye. THE KNIFE IN JUDAS’ BACK, a screenplay about a betrayed man who is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, has been entered by Gray in the Atlanta and European film festivals.
A former reporter and editor for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Gray attended the University of Georgia and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and holds degrees in English, psychology and mass communications. He is a student of film, Judaism and ancient history. Gray is working on a new screenplay titled THE ESCHATOLOGUE.
TANATA acknowledges the plight of Eritreans and Ethiopians struggling to achieve democracy and Coptic Christians in north and east Africa who are the most persecuted Christians in the world.
Gray has studied Hebrew under Rabbi Joseph Davidson, formerly the rabbi for B’nai Zion, a Conservative congregation in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Gray is a confirmed Episcopalian.
TANATA supports Christian missions to the Coptic communities in Egypt and east Africa, including Coptic Orphans and Christian Aid Mission, as well as well-digging efforts in Ethiopia overseen by the Glimmer of Hope Foundation. TANATA is also an avid supporter of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. We are seeking donations to fund annual mission trips to these parts of the world.
Email: rcartergray AT yahoo DOT com