Marin filmmaker Jonathan Knight gets personal in his first film, “Invented Before You Were Born,” which will be shown Monday as part of the Tiburon International Film Festival.
Michael Morrow, left, and San Anselmo resident Jonathan Knight look over historical documents in “Invented Before You Were Born.” A scene of “Invented Before You Were Born.” Show CaptionWhen Rachel Knight started looking into her family’s genealogy, she came across a history her grandmother had typed years before, and a shocking discovery.
“We found this connection through the daughter of Richard Bibb, and my grandmother had written in there a blurb about freeing the enslaved people,” Jonathan Knight, of San Anselmo, says. “I think she treated it well but it was interesting it was treated as this purely altruistic act and instead of highlighting that we had slaveholders in our family history. He was very old when he wrote his will, so it’s hard to recognize his dying act with a whole lifetime of exploitation.
While he’s spent more than 20 years working in the film industry in visual effects, including for big-budget films like in the Harry Potter and Star Wars series, this is the first film Knight has produced and directed. It first screened a few months ago in a church at Russellville, Kentucky.
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