Producer/Director
Renee Tajima-Peña
Producer
Evangeline Griego
Executive Producer
Jeff Bieber
Editor
Johanna Demetrakas
Director of Photography
Jonathan Schell
Sound Recordist
Sara Chin
Music Composers
Brian Kirk & Sharon Smith
Musical Performance
Joachim Cooder
Ry Cooder
Rene Gasca
Los Frijoles Románticos
Music Editor
Johanna Demetrakas
Narrated by
Armando Peña
Writers
Armando Peña
Renee Tajima-Peña
Post-Production Supervisor and Additional Editor
Bill Bryn Russell
On-line Editing
Christopher Gray
Bill Bryn Russell
Post-Production Sound Services:
Puget Sound, Inc.
Supervising Sound Editor/ Re-Recording Mixer
Joe Milner
Foley Recorded at
Post Creations
Foley Mixer
Kyle Billingsley
Foley Artist
Cynthia Merrill
Archival Research
Evangeline Griego
Suzanne A. Williams
Postproduction
Juliet Carriker, Postproduction Coordinator, Deluxe
Tim Carranza, HD Upconversion, Deluxe
Assistant Editor
Duc Nguyen
Additional Cinematographer
Renee Tajima-Peña
Additional S-8 Cinematographer
Pablo Bryant
Steve Wilson
Production Assistants
Liz Cabral
Vilma Chavez
Zaida Meijia Popper
Jason Tajima
Kyle Tajima
Transcripts & Translation
Anthony Allen
Dena Berillon
Vilma Chavez
Denise Davis
Evangeline Griego
Gregory Lutton
Rosalind Sagara
Judy Sisneros
Story Consultants
Kate Amend
Spencer Nakasako
Music Consultant
Betto Arcos
Scholarly Consultants
Rosalinda Fregoso
Cynthia Orozco
B. Ruby Rich
Special Thanks
Dalton Delan
Yance Ford and Cynthia Lopez, POV
Stephen Gong and Don Young, CAAM
Llano Grande Project
Wendy Levy, BAVC
Kuniko Okubo and Theodore Thomas
Marroquin and Peña Families
Archives
Les Blank and Chris Strachwitz
CBS News
Grinberg Worldwide Images
Layton Family
Marroquin and Peña Family
Leo Martinez
National Archives
Vanderbilt University Television Archive
Music
"Se Eni A Fe L'Amo Kere Kere," performed by Carlos Santana, written by Babatunde Olatunji, published by Rykodisc
"No Sabemos Amar," performed by El Gran Silencio, written by Marco Antonio Hernandez- Gonzalez, published by EMI Mexico/ARK21
"La Traidora (Unfaithful Woman)," performed by Rosita y Laura, written by Jose Alfredo Jimenez, courtesy Arhoolie Productions, Inc.
"La Sandunga," performed by Lila Downs, written by Maximo Ramon Ortiz, courtesy Lila Downs
"Pinotepa," performed by Lila Downs, written by Alvaro Carillo, courtesy Lila Downs
"Depths," "Me Vale," "Por Que Te Fuiste?" written and performed by Los Frijoles Románticos, courtesy Mongler Music Publishing
"Los Barandales Del Puente," performed by Los Alegres de Teran, arrangement by Carlos Bravo Solis/ Sony Music Publishing
"Las Enchiladas," performed by Los Alegres de Teran, written by Victor Cordero/Felipe Valdez Leal, published by PHAM/SACM
"Aquí No Será," performed by Ozomatli, written by Enrique Ramirez, published by
"Hey Senorita," performed by The Penguins, written by Carl Green, published by
Funders
Alpert Award in the Arts
Farmers Insurance
Renew Media
Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media
Rockefeller Intercultural Media Fellowship
us-Mexico Fund for Culture
Produced in association with POV | American Documentary Inc. Executive Producer for POV | American Documentary: Simon Kilmurry
This program is a co-presentation of POV and Latino Public Broadcasting. Executive Producer for LPB: Patricia Boero
Calavera Highway is a presentation of the Center for Asian American Media with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Produced in association with WETA-Washington
2008 © Renee Tajima