Produced and Directed by
Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson
Editors
Erin Casper, Mary Manhardt, Andrew Siwoff
Directors of Photography
Errol Webber, Jr.
Alfredo Alcantara
Margaret Byrne
Jon Stuyvesant
Original Score by
Miriam Cutler
Co-Executive Producer
Dan Cogan
Associate Producer
Nicole London
Additional Editors
Geeta Gandbhir, Michelle Chang, Margaret Byrne, Sandrine Isambert
Additional Photography
Andrew Michael Ellis
Lloyd Handwerker
Tony Hardmon
Orlando Richards
Frisly Soberanis
Martina Radwan
Miles Brewster
Michèle Stephenson
Joe Brewster
Oluwaseun Summers
Idris Brewster
Projects Manager
Lauren Pabst
Caroline de Fontaine-Stratton
Gregory S. Jones
Assistant Producers
Sharika Bivens
Jennifer Samuel
Christalyn Wright
Researcher
Lauren Pabst
Assistant Editors
Randy Wilkins
Jordan Fong
Camilo Chao
Cem Kurtulus
Sound Editor & Mixer
Margaret Crimmins
Greg Smith
Additional Sound Editor & Mixer
Fred Helm
Online Editor & Color Correction
Jon Fordham
Still Photography
Conrad Louis-Charles
Orrie King
William Caballero
Michèle Stephenson
Andrew Bui
Graphics & Design
Rodrigo Ribeiro
Print Graphics
Michele Lott Design
Rodrigo Ribeiro
Online Editing & Color Correction Facilities
Frame: Runner, Inc.
Sound Edit & Mix Facilities
Dog Bark Sound, Inc.
Additional Sound Edit & Mix
Helm Studios
Gigantic Sound
Score Recorded and Mixed at
Miriam Cutler Studios
Electric and Acoustic Guitars
Ira Ingber
Piano and Keyboards
Louis Durra
Mandolin, Mandola, Laud, Charango, Vox Mando
John O'Kennedy
Bass
Carl Sealove
Cello
Max Baxter
Score Producer
Miriam Cutler
Mixing Engineer
Laurence Schwarz
Music Prep
Catherine Grealish
Interns
Arlonzo Brown
Bernardo Sarmiento
Rogelio Thomas
Michael Larnell
Meena Lee
Xinyi Lin
Henry A. Murphy II
Omar Leonard
Safia Siad
Asmara Beraki
Ayana Enomoto-Hurst
Special Thanks
Impact Partners, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Brook and Shawn Byers, Ian Darling, Abigail Disney & Pierre Hauser for Fork Films, Elizabeth & Mango King, John & Michael Steiner, Embrey Family Foundation, Juliette Feeney-Timsit and Caroleen Feeney, Kevin & Donna Gruneich, Russell Long, Gib & Susan Myers, Debbie McLeod & Jay Sears, Joan Platt & Hillary Margolis, Beth Sackler, Wadsworth & Wadsworth, Jamie Wolf, Gavin, Michael J. Levinthal, and The Jacquelyn & Gregory Zehner Foundation, Tribeca All Access.
Fiscal Sponsorship Provided by
Third World Newsreel
Funding provided by
Ford Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Stephanie Bleyer
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Fund
San Francisco Film Society
Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund
Jerome Foundation
New York State Council on the Arts
Richard Iton
Kermit Williams
Courtney Lee-Mitchell
Blasina Malebranche
Executive Producer for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer
Executive Producer for American Documentary | POV
Simon Kilmurry
American Promise is a co-production of Rada Film Group, Independent Television Service (ITVS), National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), American Documentary | POV and the Diverse Voices Project with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
This program was produced by Rada Film Group which is solely responsible for its content.
© 2013 Rada Film Group