Doug Chancey

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m • as Dock Worker

In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Praying Man

On the eve of his campaign launch for a seat in the US Senate, a small town District Attorney receives word that the governor has exonerated a death row inmate whom the DA prosecuted five years earlier for the murder of a local police officer. In the wake of the ex-inmate's release and through the prism of the media frenzy, what unfolds is a public vetting of the DA's record. When hard evidence of actual impropriety finds its way into his possession, the exonerated man seeks out the DA for answers.