File - THESE VOICES

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT:
There
is
a
grey
cloud
seeking
a
voice
within
me.
I came to the American Film Institute to complete a project that I had begun as my thesis from Columbia University, 8 years prior: A Film adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey set in Eastern Europe, 1945.
when I was a little boy, my Grandparents told me their stories of how they survived the Second World
War, and of how they survived their grief following that war. Their tales, and those of many others,
inspired my own questions of how to create art again after the traumas of War? What purging needs
to take place before one can truly create again? These questions were the origin of this project.
In making this short film, my co-writer, Martin Horvat and I travelled to Auschwitz, and then
to my grandparents’ home town of Zamsoc, Poland. After hearing the fables of life in Poland before and during the war, journeying to that land was like entering into a distant
myth. The epic distance between their stories and the reality that happened there, 70 years
ago, is distressing. I set out to make a film that lives in the space between these two worlds.
Our team has spent hours researching at Auschwitz, the US Holocaust Museum in Washington DC,
the LA County MuseuM of the Holocaust, and at Yad Vashem in Israel. We spoke with
survivors of the war, of German, Polish and Jewish descent. I spent many hours with the
world-renowned artist Samuel Bak, a survivor of the Vilna Ghetto. Mr. Bak’s experiences
and aesthetic sensibility, a mixture of haunting realism and surrealist memories, has
immensely informed this film. Likewise, we were inspired by many Polish theater artists, such as
Tadeusz Kantor and Jerzy Grotowski, who sought to find new languages to depict their changed worlds.
Theodor Adorno wrote “there can be no art after Auschwitz,” and yet we live on. Certainly the same language of art could not be reiterated, but as we as humans proceed a new language must repeatedly be made so that the horrors of the past be neither repeated nor forgotten. As time beats against memory, this film is an effort to look at the past in a new lens.
LOGLINE:
When an SS officer encounters a troupe of survivors celebrating the end of WWII, he must
come to terms with his complicity in their grief.
SHORT SYNOPSIS:
In the days following the end of World War II, a young SS officer hides in an abandoned Polish theater. A theater troupe of survivors enters to celebrate the end of the war. As the
soldier witnesses the expression of their painful past, he is forced to come to terms with his
complicity in their grief.
LONG SYNOPSIS:
In the days following the end of World War II, a young SS officer hides in an abandoned Polish theater. A theater troupe of survivors enters to celebrate the end of the war. Having
camouflaged his identity, and remaining mute so as not to reveal his native German tongue, the
soldier joins the survivors in a vibrant celebration. As he witnesses the expression of their
painful past, he is forced to come to terms with his complicity in their grief.
THE FILMMAKERS:
WRITER & DIRECTOR / DAVID HENRY GERSON
David Henry Gerson is a graduate of Columbia University (BA in English Literature) and a Graduate of the American Film Institute. His film ‘ULTRA VIOLET FOR
SIXTEEN MINUTES’ (‘Totally engaging!’ - Albert Maysles), a documentary about
the late Ultra Violet - Salvador Dali’s Mistress, Andy Warhol’s muse, and
a born-again Mormon - screened at over a dozen festivals worldwide, the
Pompidou Museum in Paris, and was acquired into the permanent collection of
theMuseumofModernArtinNY.Hisshortfilm‘AMERICANSTANDARD’(‘Dynamite!’
- Abel Ferrara, ‘Truly excellent’ - John Patrick Shanley) about a veteran
returning from the war in Iraq to his undocumented immigrant girlfriend, aired
on the American Forces Network at every military base around the world. He
trained as an actor at the British American Drama Academy, and has worked
in film, TV, and on the stage with David Mamet, James Lapine, and opposite
Al Pacino. He produced and starred in ‘CHAPEL PERILOUS,’ which won the 2014
Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. www.davidhenrygerson.com
PRODUCER / BEATRICE von SCHWERIN
Beatrice has worked in the Scandinavian film and television industry for more
than a decade. she started out in the art department and moved in to production in 2008, working as an assistant producer at one of the top Danish
production companies, Miso Film. At MISO, she has worked on many productions,
ranging from the epic war drama‘1864’to the Scandinavian crime series‘VEUM,’
‘THOSE WHO KILL,’ ‘DICTE’ & Sally Potter’s ‘GINGER & ROSA.’ Beatrice’s short
‘PEACEFORCE’ won the Canal + Prize at the 2011 Clermont Ferrand Film Festival. it was nominated for the Robert, the Danish equivialent to the Academy
awards, for best short. Beatrice graduated from the American Film Institute
in 2015. She is a strong producer with a passion for narrative storytelling
and creative collaboration.
WRITER / MARTIN HORVAT
A recent graduate from the Screenwriting department of AFI Conservatory, Martin holds a double-major BA in Philosophy & Ancient Greek Language
and Literature from the University of Ljubljana in SLOVENIA. After one-man
band amateur attempts at film-making, which culminated in selling a one-minute short ‘BRING OUT YOUR DEAD’ for 50 Canadian dollars, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue an MFA in Dramatic Writing at CSULA. There he debuted as a
playwright with a one-act comedy “Water Under The Bridge.” Although it was
successful and picked up for a second production at the Hollywood Fringe,
Horvat still praises his big screen gods such as Woody or Quentin. Seinfeld
is okay, too.
THE FILMMAKERS:
WRITER / BRENNAN EIZABETH PETERS
Brennan Elizabeth Peters is a New Orleans screenwriter and filmmaker. She
is a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award recipient as well as an
Alumna of The Point Foundation and is a Screenwriting Alum from the AFI Conservatory. Brennan’s first feature, ‘PERRY & EMILE,’ won the 2013 Jury Prize for Best
Louisiana Feature at the New Orleans Film Festival. Her feature screenplay,
‘HOUSE OF WISDOM,’won the 2014 Sloan Screenplay Award at AFI and was selected
to compete for the 2015 Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize.
CINEMATOGRAPHER / ELI ARENSON
Eli Arenson is a recent graduate of the American Film Institute and is a Los
Angeles and Tel-Aviv based cinematographer. He began filming professionaly
during his military service in the Israeli Defense Forces where he was stationed as a photojournalist. His exclusive coverage from within the Gaza
Strip during operation “Cast Lead” in 2009 was opening news broadcasts
worldwide alongside President Obama’s inauguration. Since his discharge Eli
has been working on award winning feature films, primetime television and
commercials in Israel, Brazil, Canada and the USA. He is currently shooting
the first season of the TV Series ALESIA: GROUND ZERO. His recent work includesmusicvideos(THEFOALS,GUSTER)andcommercials(DORITOS,SAMSUNG).
www.eliarenson.net
PRODUCTION DESIGNER / DaniELA Medeiros
Daniela Medeiros earned degreeS in Architecture, Urbanism and Industrial Design — allowing her to design in different scales From small props to largescale urban planning. She studied abroad for a semester at the renowned architecture school ETSAM in Madrid, Spain, and for one year at the Visual Arts,
Design and Marketing Institute (IADE) in Lisbon, Portugal. After graduation, she
studied film for a year and started a post-graduate course in Scenic Design until she was admitted to the Masters degree program at AFI, which she recently
graduated from. ProfEsionally, she has worked on four short films and two
videos. Medeiros also had a two-year internship at architecture firms during
college. Her international experiences have helped her develop a broad view
of culture, as well as a global perspective and aesthetic ranging from classic and contempOrary influences.
THE FILMMAKERS:
EDITOR / SPENCER KOOBATIAN
Spencer Koobatian was raised in southern California by a family tha placed
passion above all. He was able to pursue his passion for filmmaking at the
prestigious Idyllwild Arts Academy majoring in Film producing and editing
9 short films which have won various accolades from the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival to the National Film Festival for Talented
Youth. He then continued his education at UC Santa Cruz earning a BA in Integrated Critical Practice focusing equally on film theory and production
with a minor in Legal Studies. During his time at UCSC he served as an invited
juror for the Santa Cruz Film Festival Student Showcase and was an invited panelist and speaker at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Currently Spencer is earning his MFA in Film Editing from the American Film Institute and will graduate in June 2015. Professionally Spencer has interned
and worked for such creative agencies and production companies as: Digital
Kitchen (BMW Unscripted), On The Reel Productions (The Power of the Pearl),
Dakota Pictures (BRANDX, Arrested Development), and Soulpancake.com
COMPOSER / BRIAN MCOMBER
KRISHA - Trey Shults (SXSW/Cannes 2015), MA - Celia Rowlson-Hall (Tribeca/MoMAPS12015), STOCKHOLM, PA- Nikole Beckwith (Sundance 2015), BELOW
DREAMS - Garrett Bradley (Tribeca 2014), AFRONAUTS (short) - FranceS
Bodomo (Sundance 2014), KRISHA (short) - byTrey Shults (SXSW 2014)THANKSGIVING - Adam Newport-Berra (Rooftop 2014), UGLY - Anurag Kashyap (Cannes
2013),ATEACHER-HannahFidell(Sundance2013),SEEYOUNEXTTUESDAY-Drew
Tobia(Sidewalk2013),MAN&GUN-BrianMcOmber(SXSW2012),THEGATHERING
SQUALL - Hannah Fidell (SXSW 2012). MUSIC: Dirty Projectors (2006-2012). Additional performing/recording appearances with Bjork, St. Vincent, Doudou
N’Diaye Rose, David Byrne, Alarm Will Sound, Hubble, Lydia Ainsworth, Casper
Electronics (Pete Edwards), Mina Tindle, Mira Calix, The Roots, Marijuana
Death Squads (Ryan Olsen), Deer Tick, Yeasayer, ...
choreographer / celia rowlson-Hall
Celia is a choreographer and director who has worked for Lena Dunham’s
‘Girls,’ Vogue online. and who has had films at SXSW, MoMA, and the Tribeca
Film Festival. She has been called the “choreographer of the moment,” by
Vogue magazine.
CASTING Director/ Stacia Kimler, bialy/thomas and associates
Stacia Kimler is a casting associate at the Emmy Nominated Bialy/Thomas
Casting Company: ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘ Breaking Bad,’ ‘Better Call Saul,’ ‘Vegas,’ ‘Halt and catch fire,’ HBO’s ‘Phil Spector.’
THE PERFORMERS:
Kurt / Harrison Thomas
Harrison Thomas was born in Santa Monica, Ca, and grew up in Malibu, Ca. He attenDed the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, where he was classically trained in voice and guitar. He began his studies in acting at
the repertory Playhouse West theatre, a west coast division of Sanford Meisner’s Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.
Harrison quickly took to the process and on his first audition, landed the pivotal recurring role of ‘Sam
Lesser’ in the Steven Spielberg/FBC pilot ‘LOCKE & KEY.’ Harrison quickly added guest starring roles to
his resume including a straight offer on FOX’s ‘FRINGE,’ FOX’s ‘HOUSE MD,’‘THE CLIENT LIST,’ CBS’‘CRIMINAL
MINDS,’ CBS’ ‘CSI,’ HBO’s ‘SILICON VALLEY’ and a multi episode arc on Showtime’s ‘BANSHEE.’
Shortly thereafter, the feature world took notice of Harrison and he booked a supporting role as a
troubled homeless youth in ‘OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN.’ In his next feature, ‘600 MILES,’ Harrison received
critical acclaim for his work in a lead role opposite Tim Roth. The film won the Best First Feature Award
at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. Harrison then landed a supporting role in ‘THE STANFORD
PRISON EXPERIMENT’, which won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance in 2015.
THE PERFORMERS:
BEATA / Beata Poźniak
Beata attended the Film School in Lodz, Poland, where at age 23 she received her MFA with High Honors. Soon after, director Oliver Stone cast her in her first American feature “JFK” as Marina Oswald
opposite Gary Oldman. This Academy Award nominated film led to over 30 film and TV projects internationally. She took on diverse roles on popular television shows: “Mad About You,” “JAG,” “Babylon 5,”
“Melrose Place,” George Lucas’s “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” and Oliver Stone’s mini-series
“Wild Palms.” She co-narrated with Michael York and John Savage Award winning documentary “Freedom From Despair” and recently, Beata narrated the follow up to the #1 bestselling book “The Winter
Palace: a novel of Catherine the Great,” a 19 hour audiobook for Random House Audio.
THE PERFORMERS:
JANUSZ / Kristof Konrad
Kristof Konrad, born in Gizycko, Poland is a Polish film, television and theater actor. At The National
Theatre Academy in Warsaw he stuDied and worked with theatre and film masters Jerzy Grotowski and
Andrzej Wajda. He moved to Rome, Italy, where he studied with Alessandro Fersen at The Fersen Studio
in Rome.
Kristof moved to Hollywood in 1992. He began his film career with a role in Roland Emmerich’s ‘Independence Day’ (1996) with Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum. After that he acted in many American
and European films, including ‘Operacja Samum’ (1999) and ‘Hotel California’ (2008) and Ron Howard’s
‘Angels & Demons’ (2009). He has appeared on various television series including ‘HOUSE OF CARDS,’
‘SCANDAL,’‘NIKITA,’‘INTELLIGENCE,’‘ALIAS,’‘JAG,’‘THE AGENCY,’‘GILMOR GIRLS,’‘THE UNIT,’‘RAISING THE BAR,’
‘BEVERLY HILLS 90210 ‘and many others.
Kristof has taught for the BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL and GENERATION CAMPUS - MOSCOW. He is
teaching Intensive Acting in Film and Alexander Technique Workshops in: New York, Los Angeles, Milan,
Berlin,Toronto andVancouver. In the U.S., he has taught at the LARRY MOSS STUDIO, HOWARD FINE STUDIO LA and Melbourne, Australia,
THE PERFORMERS:
DORIS / Kinga Philipps
Born in Warsaw, Poland. Moved to Bartlesville, Oklahoma at age 5. Attended Oklahoma State University
and Auburn University. Graduated with a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism.
Kinga’s on camera work has encompassed a broad range of characters and projects. From acting in
stirring dramatic pieces playing a woman with schizophrenia and delusional multiple personality disorder to light hearted comedies, romantic leads and tough adventurous characters. She has guest
starred on a number of television shows, including: ‘The West Wing,’ ‘Cold Case,’ ‘According to Jim,’
‘Eleventh Hour,’‘NCIS: Los Angeles,’ and ‘Scandal.’ In film she has recently appeared in ‘Hemmingway,’‘20
Feet Below: The Darkness Descending,’ ‘The Mourning,’ ‘6 Ways to Sundown,’ ‘Elysium’ and ‘Born Free.’
Kinga has always pushed her limits and tested herself by travelling the globe, rapelling, caving, scuba diving, jumping out of airplanes, and diving with sharks as a writer, producer and on camera host
for networks such as CBS, NBC, ABC, USA, AMC, Travel, Fox Sports, Food Network, Current TV, SyFy and
National Geographic. She has travelled the world as a journalist reporting on police corruption in
Mexico, gangs in LA, women in the sex trade, and other humanitarian and environmental causes around
the globe.
THE PERFORMERS:
MORDO / Anthony Nikolchev
Anthony Nikolchev is a native Californian, whose work as an actor and writer has been called a “tour
de force” by the LA Times. Awards for his solo performances include the 2011 and 2012 Best Actor at
New York City’s United Solo International Theatre Festival – the world’s largest of its kind – for ‘The
Echoes Off The Walls Underground Are Louder Than Your Footsteps Above Me ‘and ‘Look, What I Don’t
Understand,’ and a 2012 Best Actor and Best Foreign Film Award for the short film, ‘Pearadise’(writer
Anthony Nikolchev, dir. Matej Matejka) at the Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival.
in Poland he has performed at the WROSTJA monodrama festival in Wroclaw and Torun (the oldest of
its kind in the world), at the National Puppet Theatre in Wroclaw as writer and director of ‘Obejmij
Mnie,’ and in 2010 he began working in the Studio Matejka Physical Theatre Ensemble in residence at the
Jerzy Grotowski Institute. In 2013, he collaborated as playwright and actor on Vivien Wood’s (DV8, Michael Clark) performance, ‘Exile,’ which toured the Northeast UK, and brought his solo performance,
‘The Echoes…’ to Warsaw’s Teatr Syrena as part of the United Solo Europe festival. Most recently, he
performed in the immersive physical theatre performance, ‘The Day Shall Declare It,’ based on texts
by Tennessee Williams and Studs Terkel, at London’s Marylebone Gardens. And in June 2014, wrote and
starred in ‘All The Things You Said You Never Said Before You Thought You Could Ever Say,’ touring India,
Europe and the UK.
He made his US film debut in the feature film, ‘Like Lambs,’ directed by Ted Marcus, to be released in 2015.
He’s taught physical theatre workshops in the USA (The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Cal Arts, and Wesleyan University), the UK (Dance City Newcastle) and Poland (Warsaw Theatre Academy and Warsaw’s
Teatr Syrena). He is a recipient of a TCG travel grant and MidAtlantic Artists International Grant.
THE PERFORMERS:
KASIA / Kasia Kowalczyk
Kasia Kowalczyk is a Polish-American director and actress. born in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland , she is
known for her work on ‘Star Trek’ (2009), ‘The Bread Squeezer’ (2006) and ‘Replacing Delphine’ (2004).
She moved to Los Angeles in the hopes of using her small-sized head to make money as a creature actor,
so she could properly pursue directing. Kasia mainly plays aliens, demons and ghosts. ‘All These Voices’ is the first time she has had a chance to speak Polish on film and to play an actual girl.
BEHIND THE SCENES:
Director David Henry Gerson with actor Harrison Thomas (Kurt) (Copyright Zacharie Lanoue)
On set at the Roxie Theater, LA (owned by Auschwitz Survivor Joseph Hellen) (Copyright Zacharie Lanoue)
BEHIND THE SCENES:
Cinematographer Eli Arenson, director David Henry Gerson, and Producer Beatrice Von Schwerin.
(Copyright arkasha stevenson)
Cast and Crew On set at the Roxie Theater, LA (Copyright arkasha stevenson)
Stills:
Kurt (Harrison Thomas) Arriving in the Abandoned Theater.
Kurt (Harrison Thomas) Arriving in the Abandoned Theater.
StillS:
Beata (BeataPoźniak) Invites the stranger (Harrison Thomas) to join their festivities.
Janusz (Kristof Konrad) and Mordo (Anthony Nikolchev) rediscover their old theater.
StillS:
Kasia (Kasia Kowalczyk) realizing the enormity of her loss.
The theater troupe manifests what they have witnessed (recreation of a performance from a slovenian refugee camp, 1945)
END CREDITS:
Directed By David Henry Gerson
Written By David Henry Gerson, Martin Horvat and Brennan Elizabeth Peters
Produced By Beatrice von Schwerin
Cinematography By Eli Arenson
Production Design By Daniela Medeiros
Edited By Spencer Koobatian
KURT - Harrison Thomas
BEATA - Beata Poźniak
JANUSZ - Kristof Konrad
DORIS - Kinga Philipps
MORDO - Anthony Nikolchev
KASIA - Kasia Kowalczyk
Stunt Coordinator - Deven MacNair
Stunt Player - Eric Sweeney
Executive Producers - Shelley & Alan Holt, Carl Johan von Schwerin
Associate Producer - Michael Huffington
Line Producer - Sara Nassim
Unit Production Manager - Tim Beers
First Assistant Director - Kyle Shea
First Assistant Director (Reshoots) - Christian Vogeler
Second Assistant Director - Michael Hoopingarner
Music - Brian McOmber
Casting - Stacia Kimler, Bialy/Thomas & Associates
Choreography - Celia Rowlson-Hall
Camera Operator - Marianne Williams
First Assistant Camera - Chad Nagel
First Assistant Camera (Reshoots) - Justin Ivan Hong
Second Assistants Camera - Lauren Guiteras, Cecily Hope Arno
Loader - Harry Heng
Camera PA - Robert Medley
Still Photographers - Zacharie Lanoue, Arkasha Stevenson
Script Supervisors - Lana Marks, Mark Thomas
Accountant - Halee Bernard
Gaffer - Ariel Davidson
Best Boy Electrics - Joey Schmitz, Michael Schmidt
Electricians - Robert Auld-Wright, Michael Schmidt, Ian Carre-Burritt, Halyna Hutchins, Sebastian Johnson, Sam Law
Key Grip - Kai K. Krause
Best Boy Grip - Craig Boydston
Dolly Grip - Arlene Muller
Grips - Uri Brito, Adrian Estrella, Avner Mayer, Kevin Peterson, Alex Ruiz
Location Manager - Andrew Schwartz
2nd Second Assistant Directors - Auggie A. Mares, Joe Rothert
Assistant Editor - Steph Zenee Perez
END CREDITS:
Production Sound Mixer - Keith Wechsler
Production Sound Mixer (Reshoots) - James Thornton
Boom Operators - David Levine, Ivan Rodriguez
Polish Dialect Coach - Agnieszka Szostakowska
German Dialect Coach - Henning Fischer
Art Director - Ariel Vida
Set Decorator - Nicole Miller
Property Master - Jeff Solis
Art Department Coordinator - Judy Huang
Set Dressers - Janice Vasquez
Prop Maker - Kati Simons, Anelisa Torruella
Assistant Art Director - Steven Keller, Ella Thompson
Graphic Designer - Kim Berens
Costume Designer - Emily Moran
Costumer - Jocelyn Dimaya
Make-up - Emily A. Anderson
Hair Stylist - Ross Williams
Construction Coordinator - James Fuentez
Head Carpenter - Steven Keller
Carpenter - Grant Martin
Key Scenic Painter - Royce Brown
Audio Post Production Services - This is Sound Design
Sound Design - Nathan Ruyle
Sound Effects Editor - Aaron Bartscht
Foley Artist - Aidan Reynolds
Accordion Player - Sam Reider
Cello Player - Paul Wiancko
Film Processed and Transfered by FotoKem
Telecine Coordinator - Perry Suppa
Telecine Colorist - Brian Kahovec
Digital Intermediate - Prehistoric Digital, Santa Monica, CA
DI Executive Producer - William Adashek
DI Executive Producer - Kevin Cannon
Colorist - Shane O’Connor
DI Producer - Josef Sipkins
Post-Production Assistant - Katy Lewis
Special Effects Supervisor - Rocco Gioffre
Special Effects Consultant - Ivo Horvat
Calligraphy - Emily J. Snyder
Credits - Jean Delaunay
Graphic Designer - Jan Virant
Drivers - George Dergan, Julius Fletcher, Mike Hellerstein, Greg Jacobs, Jose Sanchez, Walter Spohn
Key Set PAs - Brian Contreras, Alfonso Ramirez
Production Assistants - Kelvon Agee, Chris Anthony, Michael Chmielowiec, Katherine Hatton, Luke Hazelton, Justin Horowitz,
Logan Kane, Megan Keefe, Matthew Marder, Chudney McLyn, Casey Modderno, Roland Reynoldsen, Lukas Ridge, Maury Wiederaenders, Paige Winburne
END CREDITS:
Catering - Schoolhouse Catering, Thunder & Lightning Catering
Craft Service - Catherine Taylor, Adriana Gonzáles Vega
Set Medics - Edgar Ramos, Greg Stevens, Cathy Strangis
“AT MY MOTHER’S “
Written by: Katarzyna Szurman, Malgorzata Smiech, Sylwia Swiatkowska, Wojciech Krzak, Maciej Szajkowski, Piotr Glinski,
Maja Kleszcz
Performed by: WARSAW VILLAGE BAND
Courtesy of: JARO Medien GmbH
Stock Footage from:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
8MM footage shot at Auschwitz, Oswiecim, Poland, 2014, by David Henry Gerson
A SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Samuel Bak · Paula & Morton Gerson · Joseph Hellen · Pearl & Ernest Nathan
THEFILMMAKERS WISH TO THANK:
Camille Cournel · Astrid & August Danielsen · Nikolaj Danielsen · Reina Eskin · Kelly Fallon · Sarah Feinbaum · The Gerson
Family · Michael Hellen · Brian Hershall Merrick · Jože & Sonja Goli Horvat · Idyllwild Arts Academy · Anselm Kiefer · James
Koobatian · Maxwell Koobatian · Daniel Leighton · Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust · Liv Prior Colliander · Sandra Seacat
Bruce Ryan · Ilana Ross · Alexandra von Schwerin · Diana, Isabella & Werner von Schwerin · Ulka Sniegowska · Radek Stepien
Nicholas Trikonis · United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
PATRONS:
Penny & Jerome Arenson · Colliander Consulting · John Elko · General Electric · Allan Gerson · Leny Medeiros ·Miso Film · Monica
& Philip Rosenthal · Lykke von Schwerin
BENEFACTORS:
Ken Arenson · Noga Arenson · Charlotte & Anders Lassen · Enio Medeiros · Stine Marie Møller Nielsen · Ulrika & Otto Thott ·
Gustaf Trolle-Bonde · Booh Schut · Martina von Schwerin · Sofia von Schwerin · George Vradenburg
SUPPORTERS:
Alexandra Alizadeh · Alex Arenson · James Arenson · Tamar Arenson · Yael Arenson Marx · Barbara Avnet · Alexander
Bengtsson · Carl Bergholtz · Louise Bergholtz · Andrew Beyer · Charlotte Buch · Jefferey Conn · Frans Henrik Kockum · Kai K.
Krause · James Lapine · The Lybecker Brødsgaard Family · Catja Löfgren · Marilyn Nissenson · Avi Papriwal · Carol Richmond
Niels Peter Schack-Eyber · Claudia Siesbye Halsted · Tamar Eskin · Pat & Stan Friar · Elliot Gerson · Sam Gerson · Robert Howner
Tobi Inlender · Wiveca Trolle & Philip Kellin · Igor Valantič · Michael Zola
FRIENDS:
Fräs Anna & Fräs FA Andersson · Daniel Arenson · Marc Azoulay · Hampus Bernhoff & Chary Westberg · Daniel Bing · Bine Bozovičar · Bojana Bregar · Thais Brito · The Gyllenkrok Carel Family · Rutger Carlheim-Gyllenskiöld · Smaranda Ciceu · Eva
Cooperman · Callin & Niklas Delmar · Kaja Dobrovoljc · Giancarlo Dos Santos Gugelmin · Rodrigo Espinosa · Dennis James Clarke
Sophie Fried · Ruth Gerson · The Gyllenkrok Kristensen Family · Miha Hafner · Johan Hesselgren · Lena Hofman · Susannah Honey
Andrew Hu · Gašper Jakovac · Matic Jeraj · Eduardo Karasinski · Miriam Karchi · Linda Kent · Julie & Carl Kistenmacher · Ken
Koffman · Vera Kroflič Kabanova · Maren Louise Käehne · Mari Lappalainen · Mona Last · Jerca Lieber · Juliana Medeiros & Bruno Santos · Fethi Meghelli · Catharina Merner · Nace Mikuš · Miha Modic · Larry Mollin · Stine Nordskov Hansen · Stephanie Perez
Sabina Pirnat · Elika Rezaee · Erik Robert · Iliana & Magnus Rune · Tina Salvén · Marcela Santos · Daniel Sawka · Karin Schauman
Darren Schilling · Jan Smajič · Danijel Sraka · Lykke Tavell · Alexander Throne-Holst · Vivianne & Adam Treschow · Valdir
Vasem · Jan Virant · Marie von Arnold · Wilhelm von Post · Monica & Erik Wiiburg · Mikael Zanqrelle · Helena Åström
ADDITIONAL THANKS TO:
Aero light Inc. · Camadeus Film Technologies, Inc. · Castex Rentals · Cinerep Amps · Ecoset · Eastern Costume Co. · Illumination
Dynamics · Hollywood Rentals Inc. · NBC Universal, Property Department · Nordisk Film Shortcut · Reel Good Film · Warner Bros,
Property Department · History for Hire
END CREDITS:
Edited on Avid Symphony
Camera equipment courtesy of Panavision.
Shot on location at the Roxie Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA
The characters and events depicted in this motion picture are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is
purely coincidental.
This motion picture is the property of the American Film Institute and is protected under the copyright laws of the United
States and other countries. Unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution.
Produced at the AFI Conservatory in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts Degree or Certificate of Completion.
Eli Arenson, AFI Cinematography Fellow
David Henry Gerson, AFI Directing Fellow
Martin Horvat, AFI Screenwriting Fellow
Spencer Koobatian, AFI Editing Fellow
Daniela Medeiros, AFI Production Design Fellow
Brennan Elizabeth Peters, AFI Screenwriting Fellow
Beatrice von Schwerin, AFI Producing Fellow
Copyright 2015 American Film Institute
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