James D. Long
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James (Jim) D. Long member of the High Council of B'nei Noah, Author, Director, Co-owner/Operator Lightcatcher Productions, Publisher--Lightcatcher Books and radio personality.
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[edit] Radio
Born in Swinton, Missouri, Long began his broadcast career as a disc jockey for his hometown radio station before graduating from High School. During the next 10 years, he worked as a journalist and program director in a number of cities including Houston and Dallas. In addition to being a favorite on-air personality, he is an energetic, creative writer-producer. Long earned a number of awards including three “Addys” from the world’s largest advertising competition (American Advertising Federation).
Long combined his love of archaeology, writing and film-making in 1979, shooting 16mm documentary footage in the mountains of Chihuahua, Mexico, the arid deserts of Jordan and the misty Andean foothills of Ecuador in South America. His first foray into feature films was as Creative Director for Houston-based MediaPlex Entertainment.
[edit] Middle East Adventures
He relocated to Dallas in the 1990s and returned to broadcasting. There, he interviewed Professor Vendyl Jones and was so impressed with his scholarship and unique perspective on archaeology and the Bible that Long began working with the Vendyl Jones Research Institutes. He wrote and directed two documentaries, Digging Up the Future and Return to Gilgal, and participated in several archaeological excavations in the Middle East, documenting them on film and video.
Long and his wife, Carol, met in Dallas, Texas and were later married on a dig in Israel, at the Cave of the Column on the shores of the Dead Sea. They later founded Lightcatcher, a publishing and film production company.
[edit] Film
Long co-produced Search for the Ark of the Covenant for Fox-Lorber’s Quest Series, seen on the BBC and Dutch Television. Under the Lightcatcher Productions banner, James and Carol shot location footage in Israel, Egypt and Jordan, which is featured in Giants: The Myth & the Mystery, (The Learning Channel); Gold!, a mini-series on the History Channel; Pax Television’s Encounters with the Unexplained, and Discovery Channel International’s Secrets of the Holy Land. Recently Long has released "The Riddle of the Exodus," a documentary on evidence for the Exodus from Egypt based on Archaeological and Jewish sources. The documentary was the inspiration for a book of the same name.
[edit] High Council of B'nei Noah
Long and nine other men gathered in Israel to form the High Council of B'nei Noah on January 10 2006. Long was appointed as the Council's speaker and public relations expert.
