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Breaking The News | Documentary | Independent Lens

In association with

GO-VALLEY

Edited by

JAMIE BOYLE

KRISTINA MOTWANI

Original Music by

GIL TALMI

MEREDITH EZINMA RAMSAY

Written by

JAMIE BOYLE

Produced by

DIANE QUON   

Directed and Produced by

HEATHER COURTNEY

PRINCESS A. HAIRSTON

CHELSEA HERNANDEZ

Featuring      

CHABELI CARRAZANA

ERRIN HAINES

EMILY RAMSHAW

KATE SOSIN

AMANDA ZAMORA

executive producers       

KEITH MAITLAND

SARAH WILSON

executive producers  

JACQUELINE OLIVE

NICO OPPER

executive producers                                

SALLY JO FIFER

LOIS VOSSEN

 

co-executive producers                           

SHIZUKA ASAKAWA

KEN PELLETIER

supervising producer   

SHANA SWANSON

cinematography by                                   

HEATHER COURTNEY

CHELSEA HERNANDEZ

PRINCESS A. HAIRSTON

post-production supervisors    

ANNA RAMIREZ

ANITA H.M. YU

Consulting Editor   

CARLA GUTIERREZ

Assistant Editors    

ANNA RAMIREZ

SUSANNAH SMITH

2nd Assistant Editor        

ESMERALDA HERNANDEZ

Motion Graphics    

RHOPRO

Archival Producers     

ALEXANDRA MARGOLIN

AUSTIN WILKIN

MARIAH YAMAMOTO

Archival Research       

ANNA LOUIE

SARAH J. VILLEREAL

Additional Cinematography    

DAVID HARTSTEIN

SOSENA SOLOMON

Additional Camera     

JESSICA BENNETT

JOSEPH BOYD

ANTONIA COLODRO

RAY COMBS

HELKI FRANTZEN

BENJAMIN LOWREY

ALEXANDER MILAN

ANDREW MILLER

AZARIAH OLDACRE

GABRIELA GARCIA-PARDO

BEX RODRIGUEZ

ALEJANDRA ROMERO

RAY WHITEHOUSE

SARAH WILSON

Additional Sound     

ROWENA CLUCK

JUSTIN HENNARD

JON HICKS

CHANAYE JACKSON

HAYDEN JACKSON

V LOPEZ

CAITLYN MASON

Production Assistants      

WIJDANE BALBIYAR

CIARA FRANKLIN

KASEY QUON

RACHEL QUON

SARAH QUON

SOPHIA RHEE

BRANDI STEVENS

Post Production and       

Post Sound Services by

FINAL FRAME

Strings performed by       

MEREDITH EZINMA RAMSAY

Piano performed by         

GIL TALMI

Vocals by       

MADDY ROSE WEISMAN & MEREDITH EZINMA RAMSAY

Drums/Percussion performed by   

ERIC HART

Session Prep    

PAUL PARKER

JORDAN HART

Music Editor  

MADDY ROSE WEISMAN

Additional Music Courtesy of  

Konsonant Music and Bulletproof Bear

Translation  

JULIAN COPADO

Transcriptions   

KASEY QUON

LIAA R. CRUZ

DCP Creation  

STUCK ON ON

Poster Design by    

YEN TAN

Website Design     

JULIA MARTIN

Publicist         

DAVID MAGDAEL & ASSOCIATES

Demo Reel Editor     

ALDO VELASCO

Impact Consultant    

DARCY MCKINNON

Legal Counsel              

HOLLAND & KNIGHT

KEVIN WONG

Fair Use Consultants   

JASZI BUTLER PLLC

Bookkeeping                

TRACY KELLER

Accounting Services    

LUTZ & CARR

Archival Stills and Footage Provided By

CHABELI CARRAZANA

Christine Cavalier-Purpura

ERRIN HAINES

Footage of DC Women's March / Anne Lewis and Therese Tran

THE 19TH*

EMILY RAMSHAW

Shutterstock.com

avgeeks/Pond5

silvermanmediaservices/Pond5

vinniefallico24/Pond5

KATE SOSIN

Tom Williams

Additional Materials

ABC News • Amanpour & Co. • CBS News • CNN • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert / CBS • The Columbia Chronicle • “Absence of Malice” (1981) Trailer / Colombia Pictures • Katie Couric • C-SPAN2 • Democracy Now • The Dronalist • Filmstruck • The Guardian • Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc. • KBTX • KXAN Austin News • Lisa Desjardins / Marie Claire • Ms. Magazine • MSNBC • NBC News • King5 News / NBC Seattle • The New York Times • NPR  • PBS NewsHour  • Prelinger Archives / Encyclopedia Britannica Films, Inc. • Prelinger Archives / Robert W. Carlisle • “Citizen Kane” (1941) Clip / RKO Pictures • The Circus: Buckeyes And Bulldogs / Showtime • Spectrum News 1 • The Takeaway • Full Frontal with Samantha Bee / TBS • The Television Academy Foundation • The Texas Tribune • Them • “The Post” (2017) / 20th Century Fox • Univision • USA Today • The Washington Post • WBUR • WHAS11 • WSB-TV Action News • “All The President's Men” (1976) Official Trailer / Warner Bros.

Special thanks:

Athena Film Festival

Big Sky Pitch

The Gotham Film & Media Institute

Hot Docs Dealmakers

Ji.hlava New Visions Forum

Clarice Bajkowski

Rebekah Barber

Amanda Becker

Abby Blachman

Black Voters Matter Tour

Ko Bragg

Manuel Carrazana

Julia B. Chan

G Chesler

Cindy Courtney

Mary, Hugh, Pam, Ed, and Michelle Courtney

Deb Pang Davis

Jeff Dean

Johanna Derlega

Diaper Bank of the Ozarks

Geralyn Dreyfous

Jennifer Gerson

Katherine Gilyard

Arnettia and Harry J. Hairston

David and Sophie Hartstein

Sereena Henderson

Daja E. Henry

Fatima Hessabi

Hotel St. Cecilia

Terese Hunwick

Will Hurley

Abby Johnston

Alexis Lanza

Sara Luterman

Shefali Luthra

MLK Public Library in Washington, DC

Jayo Miko Macasaquit

Erik Mauck

Annelise McGough

Micayla McMurray

Anne Musial

Kassie Navarro

Danielle Nice

Candice Norwood

May Olvera

Mariel Padilla

Panacea Collective

Niketa Patel

Flora Peir

David and Chris Quon

Julia Reichert

Barbara Rodriguez

Beatriz Rosen

Orion Rummler

Terri Rupar

Jon Sawyer

Alexandra Smith

Faith Smith

Emily Swelgin

Kim Taylor

Ashaki “Nzingha” Thompson-Hall

P.J. Tobia and Meeps

Transhealth

Andrea Valdez

Marina Walker-Guevara

Jamila Wood

Fiscal Sponsorship

AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY

UTAH FILM CENTER

BREAKING THE NEWS Funding Provided By

Bill and Ruth Ann Harnisch/The  William F. Harnisch Foundation

Impact Partners

Perspective Fund

IDA Logan Elevate Fund and the Enterprise Development Fund

Melony and Adam Lewis/The Lewis Foundation, Inc.

Chicken & Egg Pictures

Doclands Docpitch/California Film Institute

Swell Foundation

Meadow Fund

Vijay And Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation

Points North American Stories Documentary Fund sponsored by CNN Films

Austin Film Society

Sundance Institute / Women in Film

Funding for Independent Lens and Breaking the News Provided by

Ford Foundation

Original Series Funding Provided by

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Acton Family Giving

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Wyncote Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

Breaking the News is a co-production of Four Pillars Films, LLC and ITVS, with funding provided by the CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (CPB), in association with Go-Valley.

This program was produced by Four Pillars Films, LLC which is solely responsible for its content.

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