KIM A. SNYDER
Director / Producer
Director/Producer Kim A. Snyder’s most recent film, Newtown premiered in competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and was hailed in Entertainment Weekly as among the “Best of Sundance.” Newtown screened at premiere festivals worldwide and was theatrically released with a national broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. Snyder’s last feature documentary, Welcome to Shelbyville, was also nationally broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2011. In 2007, Kim co-founded the BeCause Foundation to direct and produce a series of socially conscious documentaries which have won numerous awards with campaigns furthering the work of the social innovators they highlight. Kim’s award-winning directorial debut feature documentary, I Remember Me, was theatrically distributed by Zeitgeist Films. In 1994, she associate produced the Academy Award-winning short film Trevor directed by Peggy Rajski. Kim is a Sundance Institute Fellow and graduated with a Masters in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and resides in New York City.
MARIA CUOMO COLE
Producer
Through her work as an advocate, activist, and filmmaker, Maria Cuomo Cole has made an impact on several of the leading issues of our day. Films she has produced have tackled such relevant subjects as gun violence, homelessness, veterans, PTSD, domestic violence, and sexual violence. Most recently, she executive produced The Hunting Ground (Sundance 2015), a powerful and harrowing investigation into the epidemic of sexual assaults on college campuses. An aggressive social impact campaign is underway to create awareness and reform. Ms. Cuomo Cole executive produced The Invisible War with the same film team (as The Hunting Ground). The groundbreaking investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape and sexual violence in the U.S. military, was nominated for a 2013 Academy Award® and won numerous awards including the American Spirit Award, a 2014 Peabody and two Emmys. Ms. Cuomo Cole’s 2011 documentary, Living for 32, about gun laws in America was shortlisted for an Academy Award® and premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary, which aired on Showtime and is distributed by BBC Worldwide, currently tours communities and colleges across the country. In collaboration with grassroots and national communities of gun violence victims and survivors, faith leaders, political leaders and nonprofit organizations, the film has served as a catalyst for awareness and advocacy on the subject of gun violence across the country. Maria Cuomo Cole has worked as an advocate for homeless families, victims of Domestic Violence and veterans as Chairman of HELP USA since 1992. Ms. Cuomo Cole serves as member of the Democratic National Committee and a director of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, HELP PSI, Mentoring USA and HELP USA.
GABRIEL RHODES
Editor
Rhodes is both an editor and a filmmaker. His work has premiered at Sundance and Cannes–among many other festivals–and has aired on Sundance Channel, A&E, Animal Planet, CNN, PBS and on the NPR radio show This American Life. His theatrical documentary credits include Control Room, My Kid Could Paint That, and most recently, The Tillman Story. In 2011, two of his edited films (The Tillman Story & Quest for Honor) were shortlisted for the Academy Awards®. His commercial clients include Condé Nast, Google, Virgin America, YouTube, Harper Collins and Revlon. In 2004, he was awarded a fellowship from the New York State Council for the Arts. He received his Master’s Degree in Documentary Film from Stanford University in 2000.
DEREK WIESEHAHN
Director of Photography
Recent credits include: Music By Prudence (2010 Academy Award® documentary short), How To Survive A Plague (2013 Academy Award® nominated documentary feature), and God Loves Uganda (2014 Academy Award® shortlisted documentary feature) and was a camera operator on the 2011 Sundance winner, and Academy Award® nominated documentary, Restrepo.
NAITI GAMEZ
Cinematography
Naiti Gámez is a NYC-based filmmaker from Miami/Cuba. She has worked as a cinematographer & director on award-winning films and television series. Her film, Love, Sadie, screened in the Festival de Cannes Short Film Corner. As a cinematographer, her film credits have screened at Festival de Cannes, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, SXSW, Festival du Cinema de Paris, Woodstock Film Festival, Hampton’s International FilmFestival, and Festival de Cine Internacional de Barcelona among others. Her TV credits include HBO, Showtime, PBS, ESPN, MTV/MTV2, DiscoveryChannel, Animal Planet, & Nova.
JAKE CLENNEL
Cinematography
Clennell worked as a Director/DP filming the negotiation and release of American hostages in Iraq as well as covering famine relief operations by Islamic charity organizations in war torn Sudan with American icon Muhammad Ali. Described as having a “Scrupulously non judgmental eye,” (Variety) and his work as “Underscoring, with great poignancy, the extremes of emotional turmoil” (New York Times), Clennell’s recent film “The Great Happiness Space” has had wide international distribution and critical recognition. Called “An extraordinary and eye-opening film” (Guardian, UK) and featured in an article in the London Times entitled “Heartbreaking works of staggering genius.” The film has been shown at the MOMA in New York, in conjunction with the IFP Gotham awards. Other honors include receiving “Best Feature Documentary” at the 60th Edinburgh IFF and nominations for “Best British Doc” and “Distinguished Feature Doc” by the British Independent Film Awards and the IDA.
Sandy Hook documentary #Newtown brings composers together for sensitive subject https://t.co/NXV8KiRYsy
— Variety (@Variety) March 18, 2016
FIL EISLER
Supervising Composer and Main Theme
Fil Eisler faithfully composes music that embodies both story and character. Known for his signature themes and inventive dramatic solutions, his work can be heard on the upcoming films How To Be Single (New Line Cinema, starring Dakota Johnson and Rebel Wilson), CHiPs (Warner Bros starring and directed by Dax Shepard) and sci-fi/thriller feature The Titan starring Sam Worthington and Taylor Schilling. He also continues to serve as composer on Fox’s hit drama series Empire and Showtime’s Emmy-winning Shameless, as well as the critically lauded series UnReal. Eisler returns to the 2016 Sundance Film Festival with the documentary Newtown. He composed the main title theme and acted as music director for the documentary, assembling an all-star line up of over a dozen Hollywood composers who each donated a piece of music for the film. In 2008, Fil was among a select group of up-and-coming composers invited to the Sundance Film Composer’s Lab and in the years since, his projects have garnered critical acclaim on the film festival circuit and beyond. He returned to Sundance in 2011 with the Inupiaq-themed thriller On the Ice, scored the Sundance-backed documentary Whatever It Takes and Jonathan van Tulleken’s BAFTA nominated thriller Off Season. Fil was proud to win the Best Film Score Award for his work on Robbie Pickering’s Natural Selection at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival. The film was the most decorated of the festival, also winning the Grand Jury and Audience Awards. He continued his work with Pickering on the 2015 Sony feature Freaks of Nature. For four seasons, Eisler – a Czech-born, English-raised composer and multi-instrumentalist – transformed the ABC drama Revenge into a musically-driven show as composer and conductor. Eisler has been nominee and recipient of numerous awards including the World Soundtrack Awards New Discovery, SxSW Best Soundtrack Award and multiple BMI awards.
ADDITIONAL COMPOSERS: Tyler Bates, Jeff Beal, Sean Callery, George S. Clinton, Miriam Cutler, Jeff Danna, Rob Duncan, Christopher Drake, Chris Lennertz, Deborah Lurie, Dino Meneghin, Blake Neely, Mark Renk, Mikael Sandgren, Gingger Shankar, Rob Simonsen
Mile 22 in Association with TRANSFORM FILMS
Artemis Media Ventures
NICK STUART: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Nick Stuart is an independent television producer and journalist who has made award-winning programming on both sides of the Atlantic and is a former BAFTA judge. He has made programming for BBC, ITV, Discovery, National Geographic and Al Jazeera English. He was EP on “Serving Life” with Forest Whitaker that won the Cine Golden Eagle Judge’s award. He is President of Transform Films, Inc.
CAROLANNE DOLAN: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
CarolAnne Dolan of Transform Films Inc. is an Emmy Award-winning EP who has created programs in genres including history, investigative, biography, wildlife and adventure. Dolan was VP of Documentary Series at A&E Television as well as EP of “Biography”.
MARA SANDLER: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Philanthropist, Mara Sandler has funded films on the topics of racial issues, women and violence, hazing, and gun reform. She is currently a member of the Britdoc circle. Mara has worked for years with the chronic mentally ill population and is a recent graduate of the two year Melton program. She graduated with a B.A in psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has a M.A and Ed.M in counseling psychology from Teachers College at Columbia University.
JAMIE WOLF: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Jamie Wolf is a journalist, editor and photographer who is also an executive producer of films. She’s been actively involved for many years with PEN Center USA, the western branch of the world-wide writers’ organization PEN International, first as a member of the Board and now as the vice president of the Center. She’s a member of Impact Partners, a documentary producing consortium. Independently, she executive-produced “Open Secret,” a documentary by Steve Lickteig, which aired on Al Jazeera America in the fall of 20013, and “Born This Way,” by Shaun Kadlec and Deb Tullman, which won the Best Documentary prize at Los Angeles’ Outfest film festival in July of 2013. She was also an EP on Amir Soltani’s “Dogtown Redemption,” which won the Silver Documentary award at The Mill Valley Film Festival in 2015 and on Laura Gabbert’s “City of Gold,” which debuted in 2015 at Sundance and was distributed theatrically by IFC the following year. She was the co-executive producer with Geralyn Dreyfous on “Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank.”
FULL CREDITS
Directed and Produced by Kim A. Snyder
Produced by Maria Cuomo Cole
Edited by Gabriel Rhodes
Director of Photography Derek Wiesehahn
Cinematography Jake Clennell and Naiti Gámez
Supervising Composer and Main Theme by Fil Eisler
Music by
Tyler Bates
Jeff Beal
Sean Callery
George S. Clinton
Miriam Cutler
Jeff Danna
Rob Duncan
Christopher Drake
Fil Eisler
Chris Lennertz
Deborah Lurie
Dino Meneghin
Blake Neely
Mark Renk
Mikael Sandgren
Gingger Shankar
Rob Simonsen
Executive Producers
Nick Stuart
CarolAnne Dolan
Executive Producers
Regina K. Scully
Geralyn White Dreyfous
Executive Producers for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer
Lois Vossen
Executive Producers
Mara Sandler
Jamie Wolf
Liz Lefkofsky
Co-Executive Producers
Kim Brizzolara
Joan Platt
THE PRODUCERS WISH TO THANK THE BARDEN, HOCKLEY AND WHEELER FAMILIES,
THE COMMUNITY OF NEWTOWN AND THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS FOR THEIR TRUST AND PARTICIPATION:
Syeda Suriya Ahmed
Jennifer Barahona
William Begg
Eman Beshtawii
Muadh Bhavnagarwala
Sgt. William Cario
Abbey Clements
Sarah Clements
Matthew Cole
Sally Cox
Reverend Matthew Crebbin
Herman L. Davenport, Jr.
Gloria Milas
Kristy Davenport
Lee and Alan Embree
Monte Frank
Marc Gold
Leslie Gunn
Mary Ann Jacob
Chris Kelsey
Lynn Kousack
Karen LaPrade
Scarlett Lewis
Caroline Malin
Melissa Malin
Newtown Interfaith Clergy Association
Miranda Pacchiana
Veronique Pozner
Rabbi Shaul Praver
Carolyn Roberts
Sherie Roberts
Hugo Rojas
Gene Rosen
Carole Ross
William Sherlach
Connie Sullivan
Rick Thorne
Laurie Veillette
Msgr. Robert Weiss
Carol Wexler
Karen Wilk
SOUND DESIGN
Robert Hein
SOUND RECORDING
Taylor Roy
David Schumacher
MUSIC EDITORS
Mikael Sandgren
Joshua Winget
MUSIC EDITOR AND CONSULTANT
Suzana Perić
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Penelope Falk
Caitlyn Greene
Russ Greene
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Alex Bayer
CO-PRODUCER
Linda Saffire
CONSULTING PRODUCER
Amy Hobby
LINE PRODUCER
Michelle Budnick-Duque
SUPERVISING PRODUCER, INDEPENDENT LENS
Amy Shatsky
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
Lisa Duva
Hilary McHone
Adam Miller
Laura Snow
POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISORS
Brandt Gassman and Nora Unkel for Sync Tank
POST PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Laura Snow
MUSIC SUPERVISOR
Jackie Mulhearn, SuperVision
DIALOGUE EDITOR
Sylvia Menno
RE-RECORDING MIXERS
Josh Berger
Robert Hein
POST PRODUCTION SOUND
Harbor Sound
EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS
Jeremiah Zagar
Sam Pollard
Geoff Richman
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Jonathan Abreu
Jake Baker
Ian Holden
Gabriel Long
Scott Schuler
Christine Simon
SKYDIVING CAMERA OPERATOR
Norman Kent
AERIAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Fresh Cut Above
UAS PILOT
John-David Currey
UAS CAMERA
John M. Duber
ASSISTANT CAMERA
Vincent Rappa
Cristina Wolf
DIT
Steven Gray
ADDITIONAL CAMERA
Jennifer Cox
Tina DiFeliciantonio
Mai Iskander
Niall Preston
Alex Bayer
Joshua Peters
ADDITIONAL SOUND
Jonathan Andrews
Rob Bullis
Carl Carden
Jonathan Cohen
Stuart Deutsch
Tammy Douglas
Rob Garcia
Ethan Goldberger
Jerry Stein
Leslie Taylor
Jane Wagner
Avi Zev Weider
SECOND UNIT FIELD PRODUCERS
Katie Taber
Anna Stypko
GRIP
Robert Fitzsimmons
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS
Daniel Fuller
David Godbout
Laura Moya Guerrero
Ramiro Quintero
Gene Rosati, Jr.
SECOND UNIT DRIVER
Dylan Williams
ARCHIVAL RESEARCHERS
Rich Remsberg
Amy Rockefeller
TITLES AND GRAPHIC DESIGN
Garry Waller, Momentist, Inc.
COLOR BY
RCO
COLORIST
Seth Ricart
COLOR ASSIST
Tom Byrnes
COLOR PRODUCER
Marcus Lansdell
CONDUCTORS
Fil Eisler
Blake Neely
George S. Clinton
SCORING MIXER
James Hill
SCORE TECHNICAL ENGINEER FOR OWN BRAND STUDIOS
Andrés Locsey
ORCHESTRATIONS BY
Tim Davies
MUSIC PREPARATION BY
Joanne Kane Music Services
HEAD OF MUSIC PREPARATION
Mark Graham
MUSIC LIBRARIAN
Joseph Zimmerman
MUSIC CONTRACTOR
Peter Rotter
WARNER BROS. EASTWOOD SCORING STAGE CREW:
Score Recordist
Tom Hardisty
Score Technical Engineer
Ryan Robinson
Stage Crew
Richard Wheeler Jr.
Stage Manager
Jamie Olvera
PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANTS
David Harrison
K.A. Trotter
TRANSCRIBERS
Michelle Rickert
Transcript Divas
TRAUMA SPECIALIST
Dr. David Grand
TRANSLATION
Farah Mehreen Ahmad
INTERN
Kallan McMillan
PUBLICITY
Ryan Werner and Charlie Olsky
PRODUCTION COUNSEL
Law Offices of Marilyn G. Haft, P.C
BUSINESS AFFAIRS, ITVS
Isaac Hager
ADDITIONAL LEGAL SERVICES
David Dreilinger Esq.
Donaldson + Callif, LP
Law Offices of Rosalind Lichter
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Orange Static
IMPACT STRATEGIST
Lina Srivastava
OFFICE AND EDIT SUITE
DuArt Film & Video
EQUIPMENT RENTAL
Adorama
FISCAL SPONSORSHIP PROVIDED BY
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GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM
Artemis Rising Foundation
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program
with support from
Open Society Foundations
Ford Foundation JustFilms
International Documentary Association Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund
Advent Lutheran Church
Bertha BRITDOC Connect Fund
The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation
Ronald Conway
Dobkin Family Foundation
David desJardins
The Fledgling Fund
Minette Nelson
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Chicago Media Project
Jason Berman
Ken Pelletier
Judy Rice
AND THE SUPPORT OF
Sundance Institute Catalyst Initiative
A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO
Jamira Burley
Kenneth Cole
Reverend Matt Crebbin
Chris Cuomo
Geralyn Dreyfous
Dr. Joseph V. Erardi, Jr.
Kristin Feeley
Melissa Glaser
Good Pitch
Tabitha Jackson
Reverend Michael McBride
Caroline Libresco
Pat Llodra
Jason Rzepka
Janet Rice
Vikki Rompala
Pastor Sam Saylor
Arline Snyder
Rahdi Taylor
THANK YOU
Jim Allyn
Bill Angarola
Amy and Barry Baker
Carl Barden
Mark Becker
Henry Brown
Jon Burlingame
Beth Caldwell
Susan Cashen
Jennifer Chaiken
Stephanie Cinque
Mary Beth Claus
Sheri Clemente and all at 2POP Music
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Tim Davies and crew
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All at JKMS
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Newtown Congregational Church
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Gary Snyder
Jill Snyder
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‘Up on the House Top’ / Benjamin Hanby
‘What a Wonderful World’ / Bob Thiele and George David Weiss
‘Hokey Pokey’ / Larry LaPrise
‘The Skye Boat Song’ / Sir Harold Boulton and Anne Campbelle MacLeod / Boulton and MacLeod
‘Just To See You Smile”
Written by Tony Martin & Mark Nesler
Performed by Mark Barden and Natalie Barden
Newtown is a co-production of Mile 22 LLC, and Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
In Association with K A Snyder Productions and Cuomo Cole Productions
and Transform Films
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