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Mar 31, 2021 · The first thing you notice about Moment of Truth, Matthew Perniciaro’s five part investigative documentary series about the murder of Michael Jordan’s father James in 1993, is the abundance of...
Matthew Perniciaro. Producer: Native Son. Matthew Perniciaro was born in Smithtown, New York on October 27th, 1979 and later grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. He then attended New York University before moving to Los Angeles, California to pursue a career as a film producer.
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- Smithtown, New York, USA
- Shared History Creates Opportunity
- A Complex, Notorious Story
- A Successful Collaboration
Goodmon, who today is president and chief operating officer of Capitol Broadcasting Company, knew from an early age that he belonged in the family business of broadcasting. “When I was 16 years old and still at Ravenscroft, I started working for Capitol Broadcasting Company,” he recalled. “I was a cameraman for the morning news before school and th...
Few college basketball fans who lived in North Carolina in the 1990s are unfamiliar with the story of James Jordan’s death, which took place at the height of his son’s success. “When I first started going through the archival footage from 1993, I remembered watching these news reports,” Perniciaro said. “I was reliving things that I experienced at ...
In truth, both men brought considerable passion and skill to the project — and struck gold in the process. According to Perniciaro, “Having a personal connection to any story is paramount. It’s very rare to make that kind of connection and then work with someone that you’ve known the majority of your life.” The singularity of Perniciaro and Goodmon...
Mar 29, 2021 · Matthew Perniciaro, a veteran producer whose credits range from “Native Son” to “The Truffle Hunters,” grew up mostly in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the 41-year-old vividly remembers local...
May 31, 2021 · Award-winning producer Matthew Perniciaro is making his directorial debut with the Amazon Studios/IMDBtv original docuseries Moment of Truth: The Killing of James Jordan. The series tells the never-before-seen story behind the murder of Michael Jordan ’s father, James Jordan, in 1993.
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Apr 21, 2021 · EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed director, producer and writer Matthew Perniciaro. Perniciaro’s five-part docuseries directorial debut Moment of Truth, for Amazon Studios/IMDb TV, debuted April 2 and...
Mar 31, 2021 · An original, true-crime docu-series, “Moment of Truth,” tells the never-before-seen story behind the murder of beloved husband and father, James Jordan, as well as the history of social injustice in Robeson County, North Carolina, where two teenagers, Larry Demery and Daniel Green, were charged and convicted of the crime.
