About Us

The Vision

William Perry, Max Cleland’s protégé, held a remembrance night after Senator Cleland’s memorial service. There at Manuel’s Tavern, with an open mic for former staffers, friends, and supporters to share their memories of Max, the embers for the creation of this project began to burn. What had been conceived as a loving tribute turned out to be a night of true inspiration. Almost every speaker talked about the way Max served as an inspiration to them, like no other person, and especially not any other politician, that they had known.

The project and documentary are envisioned to capture how Max Cleland’s personality, work, and true love for people inspired so many. Yet, Max was not a saint. Rather than portraying him as such, we want to share his challenges, shortcomings and the ghosts that haunted him, and the way he handled his issues. We believe his flaws and personal trials often inspired people as much as, or even more, than the loving, jovial man and political leader that was one of Georgia’s most beloved political figures. Max loved old western movies. Like the title of one of his favorites, we want to show how he impacted so many people’s lives with the good, the bad, and the ugly.

The Team

William Perry

Executive Producer

William Perry led the "Rock the Vote" movement on the campus of the University of Georgia, where he helped register over 9,000 students to vote. He met Cleland there, who was at that time, serving as Georgia’s Secretary of State. An impressed Cleland offered him a job in the Georgia Secretary of State’s office upon graduation, which Perry accepted and start three days after graduation. Thereafter, William became the first employee of Cleland’s US Senate bid and went on to work with the Senator as an assistant and advisor on his Senate staff.

After five years working with Cleland, Perry went on to work and advise multiple political campaigns and politically oriented nonprofits. Later, he gained notoriety as public enemy number one of many of Georgia’s unethical politicians by leading Common Cause Georgia, then his own political ethics watchdog group, Georgia Ethics Watchdogs. William has now expanded his work to include special project consulting, sports marketing and music and documentary film production

Ted Rubenstein

Producer and Writer

Ted Rubenstein is an award-winning documentarian with more than 30 years of experience writing and producing stories about important issues and people around the world.

With CNN for 20+ years, then as an independent, he has illuminated subjects from alcoholism – with access to the largest clinical trial in history on the disease, to dirt track racing to rock and roll. His profiles range from Colin Powell and Morgan Freeman to Medicine Man Roy Circle Bear, US Poet Laureate Miller Williams and his daughter Lucinda to ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Rubenstein is experienced in managing difficult logistics and varied budgets: among them the Mississippi Delta, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the West Bank, a night club in Manhattan.

He's guest lectured to audiences ranging from graduate journalism students at Colorado University to fifth grade students at Cook Elementary in Atlanta. Rubenstein is a native of Booneville, Mississippi, where he got his start in journalism at the Hi-Boone student newspaper. He is a proud graduate of the Booneville Public Schools and the University of Virginia.

Harold Sellers

Producer and Director

Harold Sellers is an award-winning video editor, compositor, and designer, as well as an accomplished musician and performance artist. Harold joined Creative Video in 1984. By 1988 he made the move to Turner Studios, eventually becoming a Senior Editor and by 1993 he helped create CNN Postproduction, gaining skills in compositing and motion design. In 1995, Sellers co-founded 11th Street Post, in the vanguard of boutique post-production houses at the forefront of a revolution, as tape changed to digital information.

Along the way, Sellers won an Emmy, BDA, Promax, and Telly awards for work at iXL, Soapbox Studios and Picture Tube. In his spare time, Sellers nurtured his lifelong passion for music, playing with the likes of Tommy Thompson Band, Chief Seattle, A Guy and A Girl, The Floyds, Gracie Moon, The Joe Kelly Band, The New Immortals, Rehab and The Higher Choir.

More importantly, Sellers survived the implosion of the dot.com world, and from the ruins emerged Harold, Inc., his current state of the art multi-media company, offering audio and video production, photography, editing, digital imaging and effects.

Rachel Bradley

Communications Director

Rachel is a marketing professional who started her career with William Perry at Common Cause Georgia while she was an undergraduate student at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA. After graduating with a degree in Sociology/Anthropology, she joined the corporate world and became William's go-to resource for all things web, social media and marketing related.

In her day-job she supports creative strategy and measurement for The Home Depot and was recently involved in the creation of The Home Depot's first documentary film, Hope Builds which highlights THDs 30-year commitment to supporting communities impacted by natural disasters.

Previously, she was worked at a SaaS startup, a college, a financial institution and even spent two years supporting the fitness empire for former professional WWE Hall of Famer, Diamond Dallas Page. While with DDP Yoga, she assisted with the promotion for the documentary, Relentless, which highlights Page's wrestling career and how he came to start his yoga-inspired workout series.