John Shepherd is a 30-year veteran of indie & studio film. As a producer, John’s known for such films as Memory (2023), The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008), Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) The Ultimate Gift (2006), and the hit documentary, Emanuel (2019).
His latest film is Sarah’s Oil which is inspired by the remarkable true story of Sarah Rector, an African American girl born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s, who believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted and whose faith is proven right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to her family, friends, and some Texas wildcatters to maintain control of her oil-rich land, eventually becoming among the nation’s first female African American millionaires—at eleven years old.
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