Cameraperson

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Credits

MUSIC

Bloodlines Chant
Written & Performed by Kathryn Bostic
Recorded by Michael Wells

Concurrence
Conceived & Sound Designed by Wellington Bowler & Carla Kihlstedt

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, III Movement
Composed by Dino Rešidbegović
Piano Soloist Omer Blentic
Performed by Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra

Between B & C
By Syzygys
Composed by Hitomi Shimizu & Hiromi Nishida

You Are Holy
Round Sky Music, Studio Unicorn
Pump Audio Exclusive/getty Images

Assistant Editors
Stephanie Ching
Matt Cowan
Nick Thompson
Cliff Wilson

Translators
Sawsan Aldawodi
Naheed Bahram
Ishak Jalimam
Amy Kasi
Huma Pir Mohammad
Amin Palangi
Aida Šehović
Ivan Vuksanovic
Bahara Yazdani

Production Assistant
Gabriella Gallus

Graphics
Dave Tecson

Sound Edit and Design
Eric Milano

Additional Post Production Sound
David Matorin

Post Production Sound Studios
The Love Loft
Skywalker Sound, a Lucasfilm Ltd Company

Post Production Services
Final Frame

Digital Intermediate Producer
Caitlin Tartaro

Edit System Provided by
Marianna Montague
Avid Technology, Inc.

Consulting Producers
Joslyn Barnes
Katy Chevigny
Brenda Coughlin

Consulting Editors
Carol Dysinger
Jonathan Oppenheim
Pola Rapaport
David Teague

Consulting Writers
Doris Baizley
Lisa Freedman

Post Production Consultant
Su Kim

Distribution Advisors
Cat and Dog International Sales
Submarine Entertainment

Publicity
Ryan Werner
Cinetic Media

Legal Services
Cowan, Debaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP

Bookkeeper
Kelley Trotter

Insurance
Momentous Insurance Brokerage

Fiscal Sponsor
Women Make Movies, Inc.

Footage Courtesy of
A&E Networks
Actual Films
Béla Fleck
Aubin Pictures/ Catherine Gund
Cradle of Champion / Bartle Bull
Dawn Sinclair Shapiro/ Brown Doggy Pictures
Dawn Porter/ Trilogy Films
Fork Films
Jane Doe Films
Kathy Leichter
Johanna Hamilton
Marco Williams & Whitney Dow
Meg Mclagan
Laura Poitras / Praxis Films
Redora Films
Sascha Paladino
Streb Extreme Action
Two Shoes Productions
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Wnet/thirteen Productions LLC

Additional Footage From
Buffalo Returns
Fahrenheit 9/11
Virgin Tales

This Film Would Not Have Been Possible Without the Generous Support of
Elizabeth Adams & Alex Sierck
Barbara Bridges
Bertha Foundation
Catapult Film Fund
Mary Caulkins & Karl Kister
Chicken & Egg Pictures
C. Richard Johnson
Harnisch Foundation
Independent Filmmaker Project
National Endowment for the Arts
Elise Pettus
Abbot Stranahan & David Ward
Wellspring Foundation
Amy Ziering

Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program
With Support From
Open Society Foundation
Ford Foundation Justfilms

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THANKS

To the Directors Who Have Trusted Me
Janine Antoni
Raney Aronson
Maura Axelrod
Thomas Balmès
Amir Bar-Lev
David Becker
Jane Brill
Bartle Bull
Ted Braun
Rebecca Cammisa
Katy Chevigny
Bonni Cohen
Lisa Collins
Karen Davis
Ted Demme
Kirby Dick
Abigail Disney
Whitney Dow
Sandi Dubowski
Elizabeth Giamatti
Laurens Grant
Catherine Gund
Johanna Hamilton
Linda Hoaglund
Elizabeth Holder
Kristi Jacobson
Susan Kaplan
Barbara Kopple
Richard Lagravenese
Meg Mclagan
Sandy Mcleod
Michael Moore
Emma Morris
Claudia Neubern
Sascha Paladino
Xan Parker
Raoul Peck
Julia Pimsleur
Laura Poitras
Dawn Porter
Gini Reticker
Sindbad Rumney
James Schamus
Dawn Sinclair Shapiro
Kim Shelton
Jon Shenk
Alex Sichel
Daria Sommers
Christy Turlington
Mirjam Von Arx
Marco Williams
Roger Ross Williams
Leah Wolchok
Veronica Young
Amy Ziering

To the Sundance Community & Lab Fellows
Ricardo Acosta
Joe Bini
Todd Boekelheide
Kathryn Bostic
Edgar Burcksen
John Cardellino
Larry Cesspooch
David Courier
Victoria Chalk
Rachel Chanoff
Dave Drusky
Carol Dysinger
Judith Ehrlich
David Fabelo
Omar Fadel
Kristin Feeley
Shari Frilot
Osvaldo Golijov
Peter Golub
Trevor Goth
Mark Grieco
Richard Hankin
Thomas Allen Harris
Mark Harrison
Eugene Hernandez
Vivien Hillgrove
Shane Hofeldt
Tabitha Jackson
Andrew James
Miles Jay
Mary Kerr
Mary Lampson
Laura Leonard
Caroline Libresco
Mary Manhardt
Ross Mcelwee
Alexander Nanau
Michele Norris
Mircea Olteanu
Tommy Pallotta
Richard Ray Perez
Keri Putnam
Gordon Quinn
Todd Reynolds
Eva Rinaldi
Lucia Small
Rahdi Taylor
Randy Thom
Jason Tippet
Roger Ross Williams
Femke Wolting
Jason Zeldes

To the Art Group
Elizabeth Adams
Pamela Bol Riess
Kathy Leichter
Abbot Stranahan

To the Arab Art and Culture Fund
Rima Mismar
Oussama Rifahi
Salim Tannous

To Dox Box, Damascus
Lina Al Abed
Bassel Al Shahade (1984 2012)
Lina Alhafez
Danya Alhamrani
Mouna Assali
Mohammed Ali Atassi
Asma Beseiso
Melanie De Vocht
Diana El Jeiroudi
Khaled Elekhetayar
Rami Al Jalabi
Madonna Khafaja
Helen Kurkjian
Abeer Mansour
Mariam Mekiwi
Elias Moubarak
Tue Steen Müller
Guevara Namer
Orwa Nyrabia
Mikael Ostrup
Mohammed Siam
Mayye Zayed
Karima Zoubir

To My Visual Thinking Students at NYU
Shehzad Hameed Ahmad
Rami Ayari
Dezelle Pearlana Bennett
Faith Briggs
Siyi Chen
Kelsey C Doyle
Yijun He
Allyson Turner Kirkpatrick
Kristopher M Brant
Whitney Mallett
Chris Moore
Jenise Morgan
Rahmah Pauzi
Anna Perczak
Jessica Louise Pitcher
Goldie Poll
Zyla Sethi Sarhady
Michael Shade
Kavitha Surana
Phurbu Thinley
Thuy Thi Huong Tran
Nanfu Wang
Ruohan Xu
Runze Yu
Alberto Zamora
Jitske Zoethout
Marcia Rock

To My Camera Pit Crew at Production Junction
Govinda Angulo
Chris Edwards
Kristine Guzman
Mariah Honecker
Dave Mcgrath

To the People at Sony Committed to Encouraging Women Behind the Camera
Theresa Alesso
Francois Gauthier
Jeanne Lewis
Juan Martinez
Joseph Schimizzi
Chiyoko Yannette

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TO FRIENDS & COLLEAGUES AROUND THE WORLD

In Accra
Paul Sowah

In New York
Rachel Beth Anderson
Joe Basile
Irit Batsry
Lisa Belkin
Clara Buell
Clyde Buell
Dexter Buell
Duana Butler
Charlotte Cook
Alice Crary
Lesley Dormen
Jeffrey Fitts
Sagiv Galai
Meighan Gale
Vikram Gandhi
Leslie Asako Gladsjo
Yoni Golijov
Sam Green
Jonah Greenstein
Tony Hardmon
Matthew Heineman
Matt Huffman
Kristen Huntley
Nathaniel Hupert
The Intercept
Joscelyn Jurich
Ross Kauffman
Dara Kell
Jerry Kupfer
Doug Lennox
Mark Levinson
Melody London
Stephen Maing
Susan Meiselas
Molly Meloy
Lynn Oberlander
Davina Pardo
Suzan-lori Parks
Adam Pincus
Jermaine Pinnock
Martina Radwan
Betsy Reed
Audrey Rosenberg
Aiko Roudette
Sarah Scott
Stephen Segaller
Aj Schnack
Winter Shanck
Caitlin Tartaro
Molly Thompson
Margot Williams
Paul Van Zyl

In Kabul
Ishaq Herad
Leslie Knott
Lucy Martens
Sedika Mojadidi
Sakeena Yacoobi

In London
Lynsey Addario
Alex Danchev
Jess Search

In Sarajevo
Ishak Jalman
Veronika Janatkova
Maša Marković
Rada Sesic
Lidia Sheinin
Siniša Vidović
Robert Tomić Zuber

In Seattle
The Greenlake Church
Ann Hedreen
Caroline Hedreen
Genevieve Johnson
Richard Knierim
Sidney Kwiram
Cary Moon
Kirk Rue
Sharon Rue
Rustin Thompson
Debra Van Wyk

In Williamstown
Lois Banta
Anne O'conner
Holly Edwards
Paul Sturtz
Betty Zimmerberg

In Washington, DC
Andrea Meditch
Ivan Sigal

In Karachi
Haya Fatima Iqbal

In Berlin
Karim Ainouz
Trevor Paglen

In Rio De Janeiro
Glenn Greenwald
David Miranda
Heloísa Passos
Felipe Ribeiro
Waldir Xavier

In Tel-aviv
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Shalom Goodman

In Moscow
Edward Snowden

In Casablanca
Karima Zoubir

In Jeddah
Husam Al-sayed
Danya Alhamrani

In Paris
Sylvia Calle
Jean-baptiste Decavèle
Mark Edwards
Melanie Edwards
Suzanne Newman

In Toronto
Mark Ellam
Dorota Lech
Robin Mckenna
Michael Munn
Elizabeth Radshaw
Alex Williams

In Quincy
Victor Keaton
Auntie Keaton

In Los Angeles
Yasmine Amitai
Joan Churchill
Afnahn Khan
Laura Kim
Victoria Mahoney
Karen Schwartzman
Diane Weyermann

In Baltimore
William Binney
Douglas Mao

In Portland
Donal Mosher
Michael Palmieri

In New Haven
James Forman, Jr.

In Phoenix
Edwardo Keaton

In San Francisco
Yael Chanoff
Talia Chanoff
Katie Galloway
Nancy Galloway
John Kiffmeyer
Andy Morse
Derek Whaler

In Miami
Alejandro Landes

In Madrid
Gris Jordana

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With Special Thanks
Gary Belkin
Julie Parker Benello
Berliner Family
Iyabo Boyd
Bruni Burres
Lisa Kleiner Chanoff
Bonni Cohen
Carl Deal
Sara Dosa
Mona Eldaief
Wendy Ettinger
Julie Goldman
Nadia Hallgren
Ruth Ann Harnisch
Pierre Hauser
Carol Hayes
Elaine Hui
Judith Helfand
Tracie Holder
Juli Kobayashi
Lauren Larkin
Tia Lessin
Rebecca Lichtenfeld
List Family
Cara Mertes
Saira Mohamed
Faaris Mohamed-bangerter
Yvonne Moore
Laura Poitras
Jenny Raymond
Laurie Rosenwald
Marc Sacher
Noah & Oliver Sacher
Sachs Family
Mohammed Siam
Street-sachs Family
Sullivan Family
Tony Tabatznik
Torres Family
Kat Vecchio
Vidulich Family
Chip Wass
Jenni Wolfson
Lindsey Taylor Wood

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WITH VERY SPECIAL THANKS

To the Soundpeople Who Are Always With Me
Wellington Bowler
Sean O'neil
Judy Karp

To the Fixers Who Took Great Risks on Our Behalf & Stayed When We Left
Izzadine (Darfur)
Larry (Pine Ridge)
Eugene (Rwanda)
Edwin (Liberia)
Daniel (Haiti)
Jane (Haiti)
Nasser (Yemen)
Khaled (Morocco)

To My Co-parents
Ira Sachs
Boris Torres

To the Women Who Help Raise My Children
Marta Kowalska-bida
Carmenza Rodriguez

To My Wise Counsel
Sheila Colón

To My Brother and Sister-in-law
Kirk Johnson & Chase Deforest

To My Children
Felix & Viva

To My Dad
C. Richard Johnson

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Cameraperson Was Produced by
Kirsten Johnson, Inc. which is solely responsible for its content.

© 2016 Kirsten Johnson, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

In Honor of
Catherine Joy Johnson (1929-2007)
David Keaton (1952-2015)
Mamie Till Mobley (1921-2003)