Our Legacy begins with Chiz Schultz, a producer for film and television, Charles Hamilton “Chiz” Schultz' career spans over sixty years. Best known for his work in television and as a producer of films featuring African Americans, Schultz began his career as a stage manager, actor and producer with various summer stock companies from 1946 to 1953. Upon graduating from Princeton University in 1954, he was employed by CBS-TV as a staff production assistant on the Mama and Adventure series, and in 1955, he became associate producer on several television shows including Studio One, Playhouse 90 and Kraft Theater. His first independent producing was done from 1959 to 1962 as a freelance associate producer for television specials such as The Judy Garland Show and Belafonte: New York 19.

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Schultz established the original programming department for Channel 13, creating programs and supervising a staff of producers, directors, writers, and composers. After ten years, Chiz Schultz returned in 1964 to CBS-TV as program executive, supervising specials and series for the network. Three years later, in 1967, he joined Aaron Spelling Productions as producer and story editor for The Danny Thomas Show. He also worked on the development and casting of the Mod Squad TV series.

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In 1968 Schultz joined Belafonte Enterprises Inc. as vice president and executive producer of film and television. From 1968 to 1972, he developed and produced several shows featuring singer, actor, and president of B.E.I., Harry Belafonte. The shows included the television special Harry and Lena (1969), and the feature films The Angel Levine (1970), The Landlord (1970), and Buck and the Preacher (1972). In addition, he produced the off-Broadway tribute to Lorraine Hansberry, To be Young, Gifted and Black (1969).  1972 was a watershed year for Schultz, he established his first production Company, Chiz Schultz Inc., and produced, among other shows, a half hour film pilot, J.T. for ABC-TV and the feature film Ganga and Hess. Ganga and Hess is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus in 2014 was a remake of Ganja & Hess, directed by Spike Lee. 

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Schultz served as a consultant to the Children's Television Workshop and designed a Program Advisory Service to help meet their television programming needs. He was also a consultant to the Ford Foundation, creating and supervising the first minority training program in the film industry, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hudson Valley Freedom Theater and Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, Inc., two organizations dedicated to maximizing the creative potential within African-American communities. In 1974, Schultz created a series of videotaped training courses, which he called Contemporary Awareness Training, developed for corporations and public institutions to promote awareness and understanding about issues such as racism and sexism.

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From 1977 to 1979, Schultz produced television shows for Public Broadcasting Service and NBC-TV. His special for Once Upon a Classic, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, won an Emmy nominee for Best Children's Program in 1979. In 1982, he became the executive producer of Betcha Don't Know, a series of thirty-second info-mercials for NBC-TV and an Emmy-nominated Children's Television Workshop production starring Mickey Rooney and Robert Guillaume. From 1983 to 1986, Schultz was executive producer for the film documentary on the Committed Artists of South Africa, Asinamali, The House of Dies Drear, the two hour mystery film for Public Broadcasting Service's Wonderworksseries, and the Academy Award nominated feature film for Columbia Pictures, A Soldier's Story.

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Schultz formed Fireside Entertainment where he joined his creative and business talents with those of Steven Schwartz. Among its many successful productions were A Raisin in the Sun, starring Danny Glover and Esther Rolle, for American Playhouse; Award for Cable Excellence winner Ordinary People and four years of new material for The Best of National Geographic. In August 2025, after a long partnership with Worldwide Entertainment and Media since the late 80s, Schultz will executive produce his final film, Higher Love.