THE FILMMAKERS

Carlos Palomino

Executive Producer

Born August 10, 1949 in San Luis de Colorado, Mexico, Carlos Palomino arrived in the United States at the age of ten. While serving in the U.S. Army in 1971 and 1972, Palomino was All-Army welterweight champion. In 1972 he also won the National AAU championship when he defeated eventual Olympic gold medallist Sugar Ray Seales. 

That same year, he turned pro under the guidance of manager Jackie McCoy and began a steady march to the world welterweight championship.

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Brad Wilson

Producer

In 1985 Brad Wilson began an eleven year alliance with Academy Award winning actor Robert Duvall, operating Robert Duvall Productions in New York. This alliance encompassed eighteen feature films, among them: Colors with Sean Penn, Days Of Thunder with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Falling Down with Michael Douglas and the critically acclaimed Wrestling Ernest Hemingway with Richard Harris and Shirley MacLaine.

 

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Carlos Palomino

Born August 10, 1949 in San Luis de Colorado, Mexico, Carlos Palomino arrived in the United States at the age of ten. While serving in the U.S. Army in 1971 and 1972, Palomino was All-Army welterweight champion. In 1972 he also won the National AAU championship when he defeated eventual Olympic gold medallist Sugar Ray Seales. 

That same year, he turned pro under the guidance of manager Jackie McCoy and began a steady march to the world welterweight championship. He tasted defeat for the first time in 1974 when Andy Price scored a 10-round win, but Palomino would not lose again for over four years. Following a draw against the highly regarded Hedgemon Lewis in 1975, Palomino would soon be matched with WBC champion John H. Stracey of England. Stracey and Palomino met June 22, 1976 at Wembley. Palomino dropped the champion twice in the 12th round before the referee halted the contest and declared Palomino winner. and new WBC Welterweight World Champion. 

As champion Palomino kept a busy schedule and would successfully defend his laurels seven times over the next two years, including title defense victories against Armando Muniz twice (TKO15, W15) and Davey “Boy” Green (KO11) among others. On January 14, 1979 he lost his championship to Hall of Famer Wilfred Benitez in a controversial 15-round decision. Following a loss to Roberto Duran in 1979, Palomino retired to pursue an acting career that has led to more than 40 appearances in films and television shows. 
 
Palomino ventured back to boxing for five bouts between 1997 and 1998 before retiring from the ring for good with a 31-4-3 (19 KOs) record. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004.
 

Brad Wilson

In 1985 Brad Wilson began an eleven year alliance with Academy Award winning actor Robert Duvall, operating Robert Duvall Productions in New York. This alliance encompassed eighteen feature films, among them: Colors with Sean Penn, Days Of Thunder with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Falling Down with Michael Douglas and the critically acclaimed Wrestling Ernest Hemingway with Richard Harris and Shirley MacLaine.

Wilson also worked with Duvall on some of his most memorable television roles, including the CBS miniseries Lonesome Dove and the HBO epic Stalin shot in location in Moscow, for which Duvall won the Golden Globe for Best Actor. In 1992 the formation of Butchers Run Films was announced in Hollywood and Wilson as the company’s Vice President of Development and Production. After only two months, the company had closed a deal with United Artists to make A Family Thing, based on an original idea from Duvall and scripted by Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson. The film was released in February 1996, and Wilson was awarded a Humanitas Certificate for his work as Co-Producer on the movie.

In December of 1995, Mr. Wilson became Vice President of Production of Greystone Films. There Wilson produced their first feature production, Lunker Lake. This family film inspired the creation of Inside Outdoors, a weekly television show for TNN, on which Wilson served as Executive Producer. The film Left Luggage starred Isabella Rossellini and Academy Award winner Maximilian Schell. Mr. Wilson served as Co-Executive Producer on the film, which premiered at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival and took home four honors.

In 2000, Mr. Wilson became Vice President of Development and Production and a producing partner at Hemisphere Entertainment and produced a slate of films including The Ghost Club staring Britt Robinson filmed on location in South Carolina and released in December 2003. His suspense thriller One Of Them and the family film Undercover Kids enjoyed successful releases. The Grift a 1940s period film was shot on location in Tennessee and released in 2007 by Shoreline Entertainment. Set Apart starring Richard Roundtree and John Schneider was released in September 2009 by Provident/Sony Films. Angels Love Donuts with The Crosswise Players filmed in Dallas and Becoming Jesse Tate with Amanda Waters and Bailey Ann Borders filmed in Nashville were both released in 2010 by BMG. Three Blind Saints, filmed on location in Kansas City, was released late 2012. His film Slip Tumble & Slide staring Katharine Ross and Scott Wilson was released in 2015, Christmas On Salvation Street, was released November 2014. My Many Sons, based on the life of the most winning basketball coach no one knew, Don Meyer, was filmed in Nashville was released in 2016. Meanest Man In Texas based on the book of the same name was released in 2019.

Mr. Wilson also co-founded Power In Faith and helped develop and produce the critically acclaimed TV drama series called Believers Among Us. The first four episodes continue to air on TBN, Sky Angel, Cornerstone Network, Faith Tv, And TCT Network. The series has won two prestigious Telly Awards, the Aurora Award, two Davey Awards and the Millennium Award. Their film The Resurrection Of Gavin Stone enjoyed a theatrical release in 2016 on 1100 screens across the US. Mr. Wilson recently completed The Furry Fortune, a family film about a dog that sheds money. Mr. Wilson is also presently working with Saddle Brook Productions to help develop and produce films.

His films have won awards at the Berlin Film Festival, The America Cinema Foundation, The Chicago Film Critics Association, Emden International Film Festival, Nederlands Film Festival, Westchester New York International Film Festival, Stony Brook Film Festival and The Santa Clarita International Film Festival.

Mr. Wilson is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and a charter member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.