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Credits

Directed by Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson

Produced by Dallas Brennan and Katy Chevigny

Associate Producer Angela Tucker

Edited by Carol Dysinger and Kate Hirson

Music by Peter Nashel, Dan Marocco and duotone audio group

Additional Music by Steve Earle

Executive Producers Peter Gilbert and Robert K. DiFazio

Director of Photography Kirsten Johnson

Featuring
Anthony Amsterdam
Stephen Bright
Donald Cabana
Tom Cross
Gary Gauger
Cornelia Grumman
Lawrence Hayes
Grayland Johnson
Elaine Jones
Robert Jones
David Keaton
Larry Marshall
Steve Mills
Maurice Possley
Former Gov. George H. Ryan
Donald Schneble
Gabriel Solache
Bryan Stevenson
Scott Turow
Robert Warren

DVD Producer for Big Mouth Productions Elizabeth Mandel

Sound Recordist Angela Tucker

Production Consultant Julia Pimsleur

Additional Camera Dana Kupper

Additional Sound Katy Chevigny

Associate Editor/Version Editor Charles Olivier

Version Associate Editor Jeff Seymann

Assistant Editors
Katherine Leggett
Courtney Joy DeStaefano

Post-Production Supervisors
Elizabeth Westrate
Ann Rose

Post-Production Coordinator
Alva French

Post-Production Consultants
Ann Collins
Mary Myers

Voiceover Bray Poor

Sound Edit by
Marlena Grzaslewicz, 701 Sound
Mariusz Glabinski, 701 Sound
Ira Spiegel, 701 Sound

Sound Mix by
Sound One Corporation
Martin Czembor

Off-Line Editing Suite
Z-Post
Goldcrest Post

Post-Production Producers
Moving Images
Karen Barrett
Domenic Rom

Post-Production Technical Advisor
Chuck Roback, Moving Images

On-Line Editor
Wayne Hyde, Moving Images
Joe Zito, Moving Images

Colorists
Carlos Rodriguez, Moving Images
Bobbie Thomas, Moving Images

Graphics Editor/Flame Artist John T. Miller, Moving Images

Title Design by Scott Stowell, OPEN

Archival Clearance Allison Berg

Archival Research
Asena Basak
Sarah Lewis
Bonnie Rowan

Editing Assistants
Danielle Beeber
Chris Cameron
Todd Chandler
David Emanuele
Nicole Gilliam
Barrett Hawes

Trailer Editors
Mary Myers
Shira Golding
Alison King

Spanish Translator/PA Maggie Bowman
Research Consultant Mike McIntyre
CORO Research Fellow Rupa Parekh

Production and Research Assistants
Alexis Fish
Robbie Stauder

Post Production Assistants
Edward L. Allen, Jr.
Sandi Bangasser
Asena Basak
Maggie Bowman
Lixian Hanover
Reina Higashitani
Fannie Huang
Zak Kaufman
Alison McDonald
Alex Orban
Kathryn Naomi Parker
Stacey Romano
Jessica Rothenberg
Sarah Sandring
Sara Taher
Carmen Vicencio
Landon Van Soest

Equipment Rental
Tamberelli Video
Kartemquin Films
Fletcher Chicago

Legal Counsel
Ben Feldman
Andrew Hurwitz
Epstein, Levinsohn, Bodine,
Hurwitz & Weinstein, LLP

Accountant
Nancy Gallagher
Diaferia & Knice

Insurance Dewitt Stern Group

Special Events Producers
Lauren Korn
Beth Davenport

Project Advisors
Anthony Amsterdam
Stephen Bright
Bell Gale Chevigny
David Cole
David Elliot
George Kendall
Mark Mauer
Diann Rust-Tierney
Austin Sarat
Russell Stetler
Bud Welch

Foreign Distributors
Mette Hoffmann Meyer
TV 2/DANMARK
Laurent Lavolé
Gloria Films

The Board of Arts Engine, Inc.
Eliza Starr Byard
Antoinette King
Robin Reid
Jeffrey Van Hove
Li-Shin Yu

Major Funders
A.J. Muste Memorial Institute
The Lucius & Eva Eastman Fund
Jerome Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Unitarian Universalist Association
Fund for a Just Society
Wellspring Foundation

Patrons
Anonymous
Steven Bernstein
Cara Castle Partners
Christopher J. Champeau
Judy & Steven Gluckstern
Isabel Rose Foundation
John J. & Georgiana Theodore
Foundation
Nancy Gallagher & Isabel Hegner
Carla Moss
C. Richard & Catherine Joy Johnson
Jill & Geoffrey Parker
and numerous generous individual donors

Made Possible With Thanks To
Madeline & Howell E. Adams Jr.
Olga Akselrod
Alabama Prison Project
Louis Alvarez
Amnesty International
Steven Angel
Michele & Diane Asselin
Eric Auchard
Thomas Balmes
Jack & Irene Banning
banning gallery
Amanda Baruah
Bob & Elettra Barth
Bazzini’s
Dorothy Toth Beasley
Hugo Bedau
Becca Bender
Dennis Bernovich
Nicole Betancourt
Gwenda Blair
Alex Blumberg
Susan Boleyn
Locke Bowman
Janet Brof & Bill DeMoss
Brooklyn Legal Aid Society
Emerson Bruns
Bubble Lounge
Bena Burda, Maggie’s Organics
Bruni Burres
Laura Burstein
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Eve Cary & Richard Greenberg
The Center on Wrongful Convictions
Isha Chari
Dr. Jonathan Chen
Blue Chevigny
Paul & Bell Chevigny
Chuck Culhane
Michael D'Amelio
Jane Davis
Jeffrey Davis
Death Penalty Information Center
Jasmine Dellal
Kathy DeMarco
Kirby Dick
Rachael E. Dietkus
The Hon. David N. Dinkins
Whitney Dow
Mike Dowling
Bill & Susan Dreisbach
David Dring
Shane Dubow
Lee Eaton
Lauren Elmore
Susan Eng & Kelly McDonald
Alixandra Gage Englund
Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama
Bob & Jim Erickson
Watt Espy
Samantha Ettari
Julie Falk
Brian Fairchild
Benjamin C. Feldman
Jay Field, WBEZ
Craig Findley
FL Department Of Corrections
James Forman, Jr.
John Foster
Jennifer Fox
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Dr. Peter L. Geller
GA State Attorney General’s Office
Nelda Gil
Kathy Glass
Shira Golding
Julie Goldman
Bill Goodman
Paul Greenberg
John Greenlees
Ericka Gutierrez
Dolly Hall
Hands Off Cain
Harrison Restaurant
Steven Hawkins
Diana Holtzberg
Kristin Houle
IDFA Forum 2003
IL Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Illinois Department of Corrections
Innocence Project
Laurie Izutsu
David Jacobs
Kirk Johnson & Chase Deforest
Sloan Johnston
The Justice Project
Danny Kaiser
Aliza Kaplan
Krysanne Katsoolis
David Keaton, Sr.
Edwardo Keaton
Elise Keaton
Ruth Keaton
Victor Keaton
Mary Kerr
Florence Martin Kessler
Amy Ziering Kofman
Andy Kolker
Eva Kolodner
Nicola Kraus
Ted Lasala
Mike Lasky
Laurent Lavolé
Madeline Lee
Wilbert Lee
Kathy Leichter & Andrew Moran
Jennifer Linzer
Mitchell Locin
Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery
Gabriela Lukas, Esq.
Shola Lynch
The MacArthur Justice Center
Elizabeth Mandel
Lee McLain
Paul W. McMahon
MediaRights.org
Yael Melamede
Mette Hoffmann Meyer
Chris Miller
Cheryl D. Mills
Victoria Mills
Nina & Joseph Montezinos
Billy Neal Moore
The Moratorium Campaign
Don Moss & Dr. Lynne Zeavin
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Michel Negroponte
Northwestern University Law School
Noticiero 44
Doug O’Connor
Jene O'Keefe
Elena M. Paul, VLA
Peerless Importers
Lucia Penland
Elise Pettus & Dan Algrant
Annette Pittman
Freddie Pitts
David Plott, WGN-TV
Jonathan Plutzik & Lesley Goldwasser
Bray Poor
Jean & Kenny Powers
Robin Reid & Jon Rygh
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Rexer
Victoria Rexer & Andy Macrae
William Rexer II
Adam & Pamela Bol Riess
Nancy Roach
Jonathan Robinson
Roc Restaurant
Mike Richmond
Jan Rofekamp
Gusta Ronson
The Ryan Family
Matt Sampson
Alicia Sams
Joanna Schwartz
Johanna Schwartzenberger
Karen Schwartzman
Charles Sennet
The Sentencing Project
Jean Seok
Lara Shapiro
Teddy Shapiro
Erin Shigaki
Keith Shurn
Sharan Sklar
Jonathan Stack
Ricki Stern
Abbot Stranahan & David Ward
Annie Sundberg
Josh Suniewick, Colorlab
Swete Studios
Ronald Tabak, Skadden Arps
Adriana Tatum
Barbara Truyen
Gregory Allen Tucker
Zak Tucker
William Von Hartz
Tom Walker
Rob Warden
Kirby Wass
Steve Wax, Chelsea Pictures
Leslie Weiner
Norma Whitman
Howard Wiley
Kibra Yohannes
Franklin Zimring

Very Special Thanks To
Elizabeth Adams
Kathleen Cleaver
Michael Meltsner

And our deep appreciation to everyone who participated in this film.

Archival Material Provided Courtesy of:
ABC News VideoSource
APTN
Atlanta Constitution
BBC Library
Boston Globe
CBS News Archive
Chicago Tribune Company
CNN
Florida Department of Corrections
Illinois Department of Corrections
Library of Congress
Miami Herald
NBC News
National Archives, Nixon Archive
New York Daily News
New York Department of Corrections
New York Times
United States Supreme Court
University of Georgia Peabody Collection
Vanderbilt University Television News Archive
WGN-TV

Additional Music Provided with permission from:
Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)
Written and performed by Steve Earle
Published by Warner Brothers Music Corp. (ASCAP)
on behalf of Itself and South Nashville Music
Courtesy of E-Squared, LLC/ Artemis Records


Copyright Big Mouth Productions, © 2004