Mark Kitchell is best known for Berkeley in the Sixties, which won the Sundance Audience Award in 1990, was nominated for an Academy Award, and won other top honors. It has become a well-loved classic, one of the defining documentaries about the protest movements of the 1960s. Kitchell went to NYU film school, where he made The Godfather Comes to Sixth St., a cinema verité look at his neighbors caught up in filming The Godfather II – for which he received another (student) Academy Award nomination.
Marc Weiss is the creator and former Executive Producer of P.O.V., the award-winning documentary series now in its 26th season on PBS. Longtime media activist, Weiss was recently asked to help lead the Sierra Club’s Obama Climate Legacy Campaign, a 100 –day action plan to encourage President Obama to lead on climate in his second term.
Three veteran editors who have cut some of the greatest documentaries: Have You Heard From Johannesburg; Regret to Inform; Word Is Out; On Company Business; Earth and the American Dream; Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam; Ballets Russe; Coming Out Under Fire; You Got to Move; Berkeley in the Sixties…
And a newcomer from Oberlin who did excellent work on his first big film.
Credits include: The Storm That Swept Mexico; Waiting to Inhale; The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers; Speaking in Tongues; The Judge and the General; Thirst; and Freedom On My Mind. He also produced and directed three films with Gail Dolgin, including Daughter From Danang.
– George Michalski, a high school friend of Kitchell’s who has worked with Barbra Streisand and has numerous gold records, and David Denny, who played with Steve Miller Band and wrote some of his biggest hits.
– Garth Stevenson, a budding composer and bassist who has worked with Kitchell’s niece Sonya Kitchell.
– Randall Wallace, a supporter who stepped in to help with scoring in the rush to finish.
– Todd Boekelheide, a highly-esteemed composer in the San Francisco Bay Area.
James Gowdey – assistant editor
Betsy Bayha, Alyssa Martin, Lynn Adler & Jessica Berman-Bogdan – archival researchers
Craig Phillips, Tamara Melnik & Celia Kitchell – associate producers
Zoetrope Aubry Productions – Archival Mastering and Post-Production
Berkeley Sound Artists – Audio Post-Production
Robert Redford
Ashley Judd
Van Jones, activist and founder of Rebuild the Dream
Isabel Allende, author
Meryl Streep