Directed by
Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman
Co-Directed by
Mark Becker
Produced by
Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman
Cinematography by
Sam Cullman
Edited by
Mark Becker
Executive Producers
Lisa Kleiner Chanoff
Bonni Cohen
Executive Producers
Christopher Clements
Julie Goldman
Carolyn Hepburn
Co-Executive Producers
Cathy Greenwold
Thomas Campbell Jackson
Music Composed by
Stephen Ulrich
Featuring
Mark Landis
Matthew Leininger
Aaron Cowan
Also Featuring
Jill Chancey
Donna English
John Gapper
Patty Hall
Sandra Holifield
Katie Leininger
Ellen Ruffin
Mark Tullos
Chris Watkins
Robert K. Wittman
Creative Consultant
Richard Hankin
Assistant Editor
Richard Miron
Additional Cinematography
Michael DeGrazier
Pete Ohs
Michael JC "Woo" Wooten
Production Sound
Sam Cullman
Jennifer Grausman
Additional Production Sound
Chris Beaudry
Mark LeBlanc
Chris Valentine
Production Assistants
Brian Lierer
Ed Pick
Kyle Tieman
Motion Graphics & Design
Joe Posner
Peter Haas
Will Cox
Still Photography
Sam Cullman
Crowdfunding Producer
Vann Alexandra Daly
Post-Production Assistants
Cat Tyc
Jason Yi
Additional Assistant Editors
Matt McBrayer
Vincent Welch
Re-Recording Mixer
Dominick Tavella
Supervising Sound Editor
Craig Kyllonen
FX Editor
Jacob Ribicoff
Re-Recordist
Paul Tyrone
Post-Production Sound Facility Coordinator
Maegan Hayward
Post Production Sound Facility
Soundtrack, New York
Digital Intermediate Colorist
Will Cox
Digital Intermediate Online Editor
Sandy Patch
Digital Intermediate Producer
Caitlin Tartaro
Post Production Services
Final Frame
Music Editor
Nick Stumpf
Score Producer and Engineer
Dean Sharenow
Arranger
Peter Hess
Music Consultant
Joe Rudge
Musicians
Stephen Ulrich - guitar
Mick Rossi - keyboards
Peter Hess - reeds
Dean Sharenow - drums
Andrew Hall - bass
Jean Cook - viola
Emily Hope Price - cello
Justin Mullens - trumpet
John Carlson - trumpet
Tim Vaughn - trombone
Additional arrangement, keyboards, and percussion by Nick Stumpf
MUSIC, FILM AND TELEVISION SOURCES
"Prelude in C-Sharp Minor Op. 3 No. 2"
Composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff
c. 1892
"Symphony No.6 in B Minor Op. 74 - Pathétique"
Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1893
"You're Only Lonely"
Written and Performed by J.D. Souther
© 1979 Columbia Records
"Dog of Flanders"
Directed by James B. Clark
© 1959 20th Century Fox
"Gambit"
Directed by Ronald Neame
© 1966 Universal Pictures
"The Roaring Twenties"
Directed by Raoul Walsh
© 1939 Warner Brothers
"Charlie Chan's Secret"
Directed by Gordon Wiles
© 1936 Twentieth Century Fox Corporation
"Madeline"
Directed by Robert Cannon
© 1952 United Productions of America
"Fake Masterpieces"
Local News 12
WKRC-TV Cincinnati
"The Outer Limits"
United Artists Television, ABC, 1963-1965
"The Saint"
Season 5, episode 1, "The Queen's Ransom"
© 1966 Bamore, ITC
"Father Brown"
Season 1, episodes 1, 3, & 6
© 1974 Associated Television
"I Love Lucy"
Desilu Productions, 1951-1957
© CBS Broadcasting Inc.
"Little House on the Prairie"
Ed Friendly Productions, NBC, 1974-1983
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
MTM Enterprises, CBS, 1970-1977
PRINT SOURCES
Birmingham Museum of Art
Photo credit: M. Sean Pathasema
Menninger Foundation Postcard,
C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital
Menninger Children's Clinic Photograph,
Menninger Foundation
Financial Times
Article by John Gapper
Photographs by Whitney Curtis
January 22/23, 2011
Art Newspaper
Article by Helen Stoilas
November 2010
The New York Times
"Elusive Forger, Giving But Never Stealing"
Written by Randy Kennedy
January 11, 2011
Maxim
"Art Forger Mark Landis"
Photographs by Meggan Haller
January 4, 2012
Le Point
Article by Héléne Vissiére
April 21, 2011
New Orleans Magazine
"Not in it for the Money"
Photographs by Whitney Curtis
October 2012
The film includes Mark Landis' copies of the following:
Self Portrait
Milton Avery, 1963
Margot in a Ruffled Bonnet (No. 4)
Mary Cassatt, c. 1903 - 1904
On the Beach, Lake Erie
Charles Courtney Curran, 1894
Three Women
Charles Courtney Curran, 1894
Houses Along a Canal
Stuart Davis, c. 1914 - 1918
Drawing of a Girl
Robert Henri, c. 1900
Portrait of a Young Girl
Marie Laurencin, c. 1935
Self Portrait
Marie Laurencin, c. 1950
Terrassiers, au Trocadero
Stanislas Lépine, c. 1890
Head of a Sioux
Alfred Jacob Miller, c. 1858 -1860
Estudio de Tres Mujeres Desnudas
José Clemente Orozco, 1915
Portrait de Lola. Soeur de l'artiste
Pablo Picasso, 1901
Nymph on the Rocks
Everett Shinn, 1900
Tugboat and Barge in Samois
Paul Signac, c. 1900
Etudes de Femme Assise
Louis Valtat, c. 1900
A Woman Lying on a Chaise Lounge
Jean-Antoine Watteau, c. 1719
It was impossible to identify all of the artworks and archival works that appear in the film and the filmmakers regret that some are therefore not included in this list.
Mark Landis did not successfully dupe all of the museums he approached. Some mentioned in the film declined his donations.
Production, Distribution Sales Legal and Advisory Services
Marc H. Simon
David Ashley
Simon Pulman
Additional Legal Services
Karen Shatzkin
Accounting
Melvin Ginsberg
Production Insurance
Ventura Insurance Brokerage
E&O Insurance
Reiff & Associates
Fiscal Sponsor
Meteor Films
Menninger Photograph Research
Robert J. Keckeisen
Nancy Sherbert, Kansas State Historical Society
Post-Production Interns
Sarah Maloney
Katie Peterson
Outreach Intern
Lola Dinizio
Lauren Elizabeth Graham
Megan Irving
Daniela Mayer
Website by
Jonathan Rayson
Funding provided by:
Catapult Film Fund ($80K)
Susan and Richard Grausman ($29,500)
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program ($25K)
New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature ($25K)
Jerome Foundation ($15K)
Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund ($15K)
Candescent Films ($10K)
Deborah and William Ryan ($6,500)
Bear Charitable Foundation ($5K)
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Foundation Inc. ($5K)
Barbara Slifka ($5K)
Elissa and Edgar M. Cullman, Jr. ($3,500)
Deborah Grausman ($3,000)
Therese Bernbach ($2,500)
Lucy and Mike Danziger ($2,500)
Abby and Howard Milstein ($2,500)
Joyce and Robert Kleiner ($2,500)
Carolyn Sicher and Aaron Woolf ($1,500)
Kelly and Louis Gave ($1,200)
Georgina Cullman and Christopher Berry ($1K)
Louise Hirschfeld Cullman ($1K)
Wynne and Philippe Comer ($1K)
Susan Cullman and John Kirby ($1K)
Betty and Rodger Hess ($1K)
Barbara and Thomas C. Israel ($1K)
Berkley Johnson ($1K)
Leslie and Stephen Jerome ($1K)
Rebecca Stewart Ledley and Charlie Ledley ($1K)
Lorie and Charles Levy ($1K)
Terence Meehan ($1K)
Ameline Pappas ($1K)
Lauren and Clement Pappas ($1K)
Bonnie and Tom Strauss ($1K)
Barbara and Donald Tober ($1K)
Katie and Heath Watkin ($1K)
Judith and Stanley Zabar ($1K)
Nina and Tim Zagat ($1K)
Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin ($1K)
And others -- a complete list of funders is available at PBS.
Special Thanks
Sam Connelly (advisor and emotional support)
Purva Panday Cullman and Savitri Cullman (advisor and emotional support)
Trip Cullman (advisor and KS video help)
Creative Capital (gave outreach and fundraising advise)
Crown Prints (gave us free printing services for KS fulfillment)
Gaby Darbyshire (introduced us to John Gapper)
Nicolette D'Atelis (introduced us to a Co-EP)
Tony Felzen (connected the directors and gave us outreach advise)
Financial Times (gave us John Gapper who found Mark Landis)
Ryan Harrington (early champion and adviser of the film, pitched with us at IDFA)
The IDFA Forum
Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
Tabitha Jackson (important champion and adviser of the project)
Myna Joseph (advisor)
Taylor Krauss (gave us free equipment)
Jennifer Leininger (Subject's wife - helpful to production)
Colette Loll (helped advise and champion Mark Landis in wake of the film's release)
Nadine Maleh, Violet Becker and Harlie Becker (family)
Mixed Greens (gave us free space for Tribeca premiere)
Natalie Mooallem (early champion and advisor)
Pine Belt Mental Health
Center (allowed us crucial access and insight)
Rodney Robinson (helped navigate Mark Landis issues in town)
Jose Rodriguez (early champion and adviser of the project)
Romy Simpson (subject who was cut and who helped Mark Landis in post- exhibition stage of film)
Rahdi Taylor (important champion and adviser of the project)
Lynn True and Nelson Walker (helped us with KS video and were imp advisers)
Paul Sturtz and David Wilson (important champion and adviser of the project)
Oscilloscope Laboratories, Non Sequitur Productions and Yellow Cake Films present
ART AND CRAFT
In Association with Catapult Film Fund and Motto Pictures
Produced In Association with: American Documentary/POV, TVO and Knowledge Network
Executive Producer for America Documentary/POV: Simon Kilmurry
Co-Executive Producer for American Documentary/POV: Cynthia Lopez
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