Black Tar Road

Best Editing in a Feature Film

Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes
Directed by: Amber Dawn Lee
Edited by: Robert Franco

Overview: Black Tar Road is a gritty junkie love story between two women, a truck-stop prostitute and a truck-driver, who battle their addictions and ties to a dangerous drug dealer in the hopes of finding love and faith in the middle of nowhere.

Director Biography  – Amber Dawn Lee:
Amber Dawn Lee is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative journey spans film, acting, theatre, visual arts, and writing. With a passion for storytelling in all its forms, she brings raw emotion and vivid imagination to every project she touches. Currently, Amber is immersed in writing her memoir—an intimate look at the life behind the art—and painting a bold new series for upcoming gallery exhibitions. Whether on canvas or the stage, her work is a powerful reflection of resilience, beauty, and absolutely rebellious.

Editor Biography – Robert Franco:
Bob started out in media doing radio interviews during the Crosby ProAm golf tournament before it was the AT&T. He interviewed Jack Nicholaus, Bob Newhart, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Former President Gerald Ford, among others. Since then Bob has produced business and entertainment projects for more than thirty years. His local and national camera and editing work has played on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and cable networks such as the Speed Channel, National Geographic, The Travel Channel, TV Land, and the Learning Channel. Over eighty primetime CBS Candid Camera shows were edited and online by Bob Franco including four one hour specials. The original Airborne ads with TV stars were shot and edited by Bob. Apple Computer used some of Bob’s broadcast quality videos as examples of high-end video converted for the web and was the only small company featured on their MPEG4 roll out campaign. He’s shot stars from actor Mickey Rooney, to rapper Waka Flocka Flame, Peyton Manning, Wayne Gretzky, Martha Stewart, Howie Mandel, Carol Burnett, Mario Andretti, and Clint Eastwood. In addition, Bob has directed two indie feature films and a WWII documentary on PBS that aired nationally for three years. “We’ve produced work for clients ranging in size from one man businesses, to giant global companies such as HID, the largest access control company in the world.” Bob has also served as a post production and color correction supervisor on national commercial projects, documentaries, dramatic films, as well as editor and colorist. Currently, Bob distributes the documentary Big Sur The Way It Was and is producing short documentaries about artists in Big Sur.