Directed and Written By
Natalia Almada
Produced By
Daniela Alatorre
Natalia Almada
Director Of Photography
Chuy Chavez
Sound Design and Mix
Alejandro De Icaza
Editing
Natalia Almada
Additional Photography
Natalia Almada (video)
Gerardo Barroso
Gregorio Chávez
Additional Editing
Shannon Kennedy
Editing Consultants
Mary Lampson
Sam Pollard
Creative Consultant
Sam Green
Production and Sound Mixer
Pedro Alfonso Mejía García
Assistant Sound Design
Chema Gómez Perez
Camera Assistant
Adrian Patiño
Lisa Tillinger
Iwao Kawasaky
Production Assistant
Guillermo Álvarez
Isadora Oseguera Pizaña
Narration and Translation Consultation
Daniela Alatorre
Alan Page
Jenni Quilter
History Advisor
Jean Meyer
Archival Materials Courtesy Of
Almada Family
Archivos Plutarco Elías Calles (FAPECFT)
Filmoteca de la UNAM
Fototeca Nacional del INAH
Fundación Carmen Toscano
U.S. National Archives and Record Administration
Archival Researchers
Daniela Alatorre
Guadalupe Bracho (FAPECFT)
Nahún Calleros (Filmoteca UNAM)
Bonnie Rowan
Fiction Film Scenes
"Sergei Eisenstein. Meksikanskaya fantasiya"
Directed by Oleg Kovalov
Courtesy of the Mexican Picture Partnership
1988
"¡Que Viva Mexico! "
Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein
Edited By Grigori Alexandrov, 1979
"Vámonos con Pancho Villa!"
Directed by Fernando de Fuentes
Clasa Films, S.A. 1936
"Viva Zapata!"
Directed by Elia Kazan
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 1952
"Si Yo Fuera Diputado"
Directed By Miguel M. Delgado
Posa Films International, S.A., 1952
Original Score Composed By
John Zorn, Marc Ribot And Shahzad Ismaily
Opera Courtesy Of Universal Music
Lakmé: Act I - Viens, Mallika, ...Dome Epais
Léo Delibes
On-Line Postworks
Colorist: Savvas Paritsis
Additional Colorist: Scott Olive
Conforming Editor: Savvas Paritsis
Post Production Project Manager: Michael Ashburn
Still Photography
Gregory Allen
Film Titles Design
Isa Gouverneur
Motion Graphics
Anne Rothschild
Website Design
Butic
Legal Consultation
Phyllis Kaufman
Sales Agent
Louise Rosen Ltd.
Fiscal Sponsorship
Women Make Movies
Funding and Support Provided By
Independent Television Service
Latino Public Broadcasting
Guggenheim Foundation
Creative Capital
Sundance Documentary Institute and Labs
Media Arts Fellowship: A Program of Tribeca Film Institute
New York Foundation for the Arts
Jerome Foundation
Beca Gucci/Ambulante
MacDowell Colony
Executive Producer for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer
Executive Producer for American Documentary | POV
Simon Kilmurry
Executive Producer for LPB
Patricia Boero
Special Thanks
Almada Family
Gregory Allen
Jesus Almada
Sally Berger
Marco Cappelli
Nicole Cattell
Pamela Echeverria
Lewis Erskin
Yance Ford
Elena Fortes
Francisco Garcia Ambriz
Peter Golub
Maria Isabel Gouverneur
Enrique Greiner
Evangeline Griego
Todd Griffin
Jenny Heard
Leo Heiblum
Cristina Ibarra
Fernando Kleinert
Mary Lampson
Mariana Linares Cruz
Michel Lipkes
James Longley
Cynthia López
David Macy
Vivek Maddala
Cara Mertes
Matias Meyer
Lucila Moctezuma
Norma Ogarrio
Kyle Oliver
Lynn Palanza
Laura Poitras
Lourdes Portillo
Marc Ribot
Alex Rivera
Esther Robinson
Kent Rogowski
Bernardo Ruiz
Charles Schultz
Rahdi Taylor
Jorge Trelles
Iván Trujillo
Hernan Vera
Deborah Zimmerman
Filmed in Mexico City
El General is a co-production of Altamura Films and the Independent
Television Service (ITVS) in association with Latino Public Broadcasting
(LPB), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
(CPB), and American Documentary | POV
ALTAMURA FILMS - copyright 2009