THE TEAM
Hero’s Stone Productions specializes in films with religious and/or spiritual themes.
In addition, the producers, Alan and Isabel Pisano create films with themes of social justice and peace. Their initial film was entitled Waging Peace. This film was a commission for the Nobel Prize winning organization, Pugwash. This organization shared the Nobel Peace Prize with its founder Joseph Rotblat, for their work on nuclear non-proliferation. We are supporters of the arts and higher education. Isabel Pisano is a former trustee of the Berklee College of Music in Boston Ma. In addition, she is on the Dean’s Council of Metropolitan College at Boston University. After a career in software, Isabel has dedicated her time to telling thought provoking and transformative stories. Alan is a Professor in the College of Engineering at Boston University and lends his technical expertise and other capabilities to productions. They are parishioners at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica, the “Mission Church” in Boston MA. The icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help has been displayed in their home for now 40 years.
Hero's Stone Producers: Isabel & Alan Pisano
Father Dabney
Father Philip Dabney is a Redemptorist priest whose hometown is Annapolis, MD. He is the sixth of nine children. In 1965, at the age of 14, Father Dabney began his journey with the Redemptorists by entering their minor seminary in North East, PA. He took his first vows in 1970, his final vows in 1975 and was ordained in 1978. In 1980 he returned to the minor seminary where he started, to teach music, speech, oral interpretation, and English literature. In 1987, when the minor seminary closed, he went to Washington, D.C., where he began his first term as vocation director for his province. In 1992, he went to St. Louis University where he studied spirituality, in order to prepare himself for assuming the responsibility of novice director in Esopus, NY. A year later, two months prior to beginning his job as novice director there was change of plans. Instead he went back to Washington D.C. to be the rector of the house of Theology. Six years later, in 1999, he returned to vocation work again for nine years, living in Whitestone, NY, the Redemptorist house of philosophy. Since 2008, he has been serving as associate pastor at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston, MA. He enjoys the theatre, loves to sing, fishes occasionally, plays tennis, and loves people. As he once wrote: “I began my priesthood by offering my life to Christ and he has filled my life with his people.”
Director, Cinematographer, Editor: Frank Flloyd
Frank Floyd was schooled in Boston at Our Lady of Perpetual Help's Mission Grammar school, then at Boston Latin School, Boston University and Massachusetts College of Art. He has worked in advertising and television, editing for SundanceTV and producing work for many others. Frank continues to direct, edit, produce and teach, as well as exhibit his video artworks internationally.
Writer: David Mulei
David Mulei’s plays have been developed at Open Fist, Rogue Machine, and Arena Stage (TOA), among other venues. He is currently working on a screen adaptation of Judith Nies' acclaimed non-fiction book, "Unreal City." He lives in Boston and is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Alan Pisano & Pauline Pisano
THE MUSIC TEAM
Luis
Received the Latin-American scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston where he obatined his degree in Contemporary Writing and Production. He graduated with Cum Laude honor. Luis is a visionary producer, who composes and works with contemporary music. "My broad musical skills, enhanced by my passion for music and my creativity are the groundwork upon which I am able to build and provide various scales of production, edition and recording." Visit www.bucumale.com
The brother and sister duo have been collaborating in various music projects for over a decade. Icon of Love is a return to this tradition. Both were trained in classical, jazz, and contemporary styles.