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CREDITS

​Directed By
MARC BENNETT + TIM ROPER


Written By  
TIM ROPER
BRETT KOPIN
MARC BENNETT


Produced By
LISA EFFRESS
MARC BENNETT


Executive Producers
MELINDA GOLDRICH
ANDREA CAYTON


Edited By
ALANNA SCHMELTER
TRAVIS MITCHELL
PEDRO URGILIES
JOHN POLK


Cinematography By
PATRICK LEWTSCHANYN
ALEJANDRO MARIN
DEL FELTZ


Original Music By
DANIEL ALCHEH


Associate Producer
SARA ROBIN


Narrated by
TIM ROPER


Featuring (In order of appearance)
MICHAEL BERENBAUM
MARCEL ZIELINSKI
ROBERT DESMOND
BEN FERENCZ
JONATHAN ORNSTEIN
GUGULETHU MOYO
JONATHAN GREENBLATT
STEPHEN SMITH
TIMOTHY SNYDER
DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
BERNARD OFFEN
FRANS DE WAAL
KIMBERLY SCHONERT-REICHEL


 
With (In order of appearance)
CHEN ZIELINSKI
RABBI AVI BAUMOL
AGNIESZKA GIŚ 
RABBI MICHAEL PALEY
RABBI YOSHI ZWEIBACK
RABBI STEVEN MOSS
RICHARD ROSENTHAL
MELINDA GOLDRICH
BETH KEAN
VICKI WARNER
HALEY WARNER
EMI WARNER
CARYL ENGLANDER

And

THE 2019 RIDERS FOR THE LIVING

 


Poland Crew

Line Producer / Production Manager
BOGNA SZEWCZYK

Production Manager
MAREK SKUPIEŃ

Location Managers
RAFAŁ ORLICKI
PRZEMYSŁAW WALOCHA

Auschwitz Museum Press Office 
LUKASZ LIPIŃSKI

Director of Photography
MICHAŁ SOSNA

Camera Operators
KRZYSZTOF ŁUCZAK
BRAD “DOUG” APPEL

Assistant Camera
SZYMON PORADZISZ
KAMIL LAMPART

Grips
MARCIN SKOŚ
MIKOŁAJ MRÓZEK

DIT
WOJCIECH MAŚLAK
MARIUSZ KOZIŃSKI

Sound Recording
GRZEGORZ KOZŁOWSKI
TOMASZ SIKORA

Drone Operators 
ŁUKSZ SAKIEWICZ
SEBASTIAN DUDEK

Still Photographer
PRZEMYSŁAW WALOCHA

Production Assistant
ALEKSANDRA MUSIAŁ

Scooter Drivers
ŁUKASZ ZAZIĄBŁ
JAKUB GAŁŹIŃSKI  
KRZYSZTOF PODOLSKI

Van Drivers
ROBERT ZDEBSKI
MAREK SZABRA
ŁUKASZ ZDEBSKI
SEBASTIAN SŁOWI
IGNACY JANISZEWSKI
JERZY POTOCKI

Production Company
MADANTS

Camera Equipment
CINERENTAL

Lighting Equipment
CINELIGHT

 


North American Crews

Additional Cinematography
BROOK AITKEN
CHAD CARTER
RAUL GASTEAZORO
ED STEPHENSON
MARC BENNETT

JORDAN POLEVOY

Assistant Camera
LEO KEI ANGELOS
SCOTT DAHARB
VINCENT CARNEVALE

Sound Recording
MICHEL GRZELAK
EMORY MURCHISON
SCOTT OUELLETTE
TED THACKER

Grips
CHRISTOPHER BATES
STEPHEN A. WHITE
JOE MOVICK
NICK ARNIOTES
FRED GIBSON
JARED PEARSON

Gaffer
JEFF TOGNO

Hair and Make-up

STACY GRAY

CINDY CRUZ

Production Assistant
TERENCE MCCAVOUR

Collaborating Production Companies
BLACK POWDER WORKS
INERTIA FILMS
FLUG
KAYE LITES
CINEFILMS VIDEO PRODUCTIONS
LOOSE CANNON FILMS
SCHEIMPFLUG
MONSOON PRODUCTION SERVICES
FAST LIGHTS

Sound Effects Editor
MATTHEW POLIS

Sound Post-Production
SOUNDSPACE

BOULDER, COLORADO

Re-Recording Mixer
MATTHEW POLIS

Narration Recording
COUPE STUDIOS
BOULDER, COLORADO

Archival Researcher
TIM ROPER

Archival Rights and Clearances Supervisor
HEATHER MERRILL

Archival Associates 
MIKE NEGRI
NICOLE SCHOFIELD 
ABBY SIEGEL 
BRENNA CHERRY 

Archival Rights and Clearances
ADAM CARSTON
AMY DAX
EMMANUEL DESIR
JENNIFER HICKEY

Post-Production Services 
11 DOLLAR BILL
BOULDER, COLORADO & 
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 

Post-Production Producer
LISA EFFRESS

Title Design
CHRISTIAN ROBINS

Digital Animation 
CHRISTIAN ROBINS

Graphic Design
CHRISTIAN ROBINS

Post-Production Manager
CLARK JACKSON

Colorist
ROBERT CURRERI

Online Editors
TRAVIS MITCHELL
CLARK JACKSON
DAVE MEHRMAN

Administration
LISA CHUNG

Post-Production Intern
ISAI MEDINA

Website Design

JEFFREY PITTLE/PITTLEWORKS

Legal Services 
JUSTINE JACOBS,
FOCUS MEDIA LAW GROUP

JOSEPH SOFIO,
LAW OFFICE OF JOSEPH M. SOFIO

Festival and Sales Strategist 
NANCY COLLET,
CINEMA COLLET

Music Supervisors
SUSAN SCHWARTZ
STEFANIA MCGOWAN

Original Music by
DANIEL ALCHEH

Orchestration
ERIK LUNDBORG
DANIEL ALCHEH

Note Preparation
BLACK RIBBON

Music Editor
SHIE ROZOW

Assistant Music Editor
PETER ZONGTING LI

Royal Scottish National Orchestra 
Recorded at RSNO Hall, Glasgow, Scotland

Conductor
ALLAN WILSON

Leader
MAYA IWABUCHI

Cello Solos
BETSY TAYLOR

Orchestra Recording Engineer
HEDD MORFETT-JONES

Pro Tools
MARC MCCOUIG

Music Contractor
PAUL TALKINGTON

Piano, Electronics & Programming
DANIEL ALCHEH

Acoustic & Electric Guitars
GENE MICOFSKY

Classical Guitar
THOM ROTELLA

Drums & Percussion
SHAWN PELTON

String Bass
MICHAEL VALERIO

Ethnic Violin & Fiddle
PAUL JACOB CARTWRIGHT 

Additional Violin
OLGA MATROS

Bass Flute, Shakuhachi & Bamboo Flutes
SUZZANE TENG

Vocals
AYANA HAVIV

Cimbalom
EKATERINA YEVTUKHINA

Additional Music Recorded at
THE PANIC ROOM, BURBANK, CALIFORNIA

Score Mixed by
ALAN MEYERSON 
ELLIOT HUNT

Score produced by
DANIEL ALCHEH

 

"Road to Nowhere"

Written by
David Byrne

Tina Weymouth

Chris Frantz

Jerry Harrison

Performed by
Talking Heads

By permission of WC Music Corp (ASCAP) on behalf of itself and Index Music Inc.

 

"Further on (Up the Road)"

Written by
Bruce Springsteen

Performed by
Joan Osborne

Produced by
Kevin Bents and Daniel Alcheh

Vocals recorded at
Degraw Sound

Brooklyn, New York

Engineer
Ben Rice

Mixed by
Elliot Hunt

Guitars
Gene Micofsky
Thom Rotella
Kevin Bents

Drum and Percussion
Shawn Pelton

String Bass
Michael Valerio

Keyboards and Synths
Kevin Bents
Daniel Alcheh

By permission of Sony Pop Music Publishing/Eldridge Publishing Co (GMR)

 

 

3rd Party Archival Materials

ABCNEWS VideoSource

Abby Lammers

Adam Jones, Ph.D.

Alamy

Alaska State Library, Skinner Foundation Collection, Delano Photo, ASL-P44-03-015

Andrew Wood

Andy Thomas, © “Sand Creek Massacre”

Ann Thiermann, muralist

AP Archive

Armenian National Institute

Ben Ferencz

Beth Kean

Brett Kopin

California Historical Society

California State Library

CASEL, www.casel.org

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Image Library

Chris Parker

Christian Santi, Dreamstime.com

CHRONOS-MEDIA GmbH

Church History Museum, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Corinne Dufka

Critical Past

Daily Mirror

Dan Nance

David Geitgey Sierralupe

Deschâtelets-NDC Archives, St-Peter's photographs

Deutsches Bundesarchiv

Dickinson College, Archives and Special Collections

Diego Delso

Documentation Center of Cambodia's Photos Archive

Equal Justice Initiative

Estate of Arthur Leipzig, Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

FDR Presidential Library & Museum

Fernando Miranda, “The statue of ‘The Freed Slave’ in Memorial Hall”

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Florida Photographic Collection

Frederic Remington Art Museum

George H. Johnson

Getty Images

Getty Images / BBC Motion Gallery

Grave Explorations

Hecktic Travels

History Colorado-Denver, Colorado

Historic Films Archive

Howard Chandler Christy, "Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States"

Ibro Zahirovic

Imperial War Museums

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM)

iStock

J. B. Browne, Harper’s New Monthly, California State Library

Jack Picone Photographer

Jason deCaires Taylor. All rights reserved, DACS / ARS [2023]

Jay Mather

JCC Krakow

John Haladijan

Julien Bryan

Leonid Fisyienko

Library of Congress

Library of Congress / Edward S. Curtis

Library of Congress / H. L. Stephens

Malina Tran

Marcel Zielinski

Marion Palfi © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents

Max D. Stanley, R. Michelson Galleries

McMurry Family

Mémorial de la Shoah / Coll. David Olère

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Minnesota Historical Society

National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

National Archives and Records Administration

National Archives of Norway

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

New York Public library

Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Abteilung Aurich

Nikita Demenkov

NIOD, Image Bank WO2

Oklahoma Historical Society, Jewell L. Hardy Collection

Pacific University Archives

Pankowsky Collection, Sofia Guttentag Davidson, "Burning the Synagogue"

Patrick Atkinson

Patriot Art, INC

Peace Palace Library

Pieter Hugo, Courtesy of the artist and Yossi Milo, New York, “Jean Pierre Karenzi,

Perpetrator; Viviane Nyiramana, Survivor, 2014”

Pond5

Post Modern Company / National Park Service

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Robert Desmond

Radiotelevizija Bosne i Hercegovine

Reuters / Screenocean

Ron Haviv / VII / Redux

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, Algoma University

Shutterstock

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oświęcim

Storyblocks

Theodore Morris

Thomas Nast, Wood Engraving (1876), The Newberry Digital Collection

Tim Roper

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

USHMM, courtesy of Charles and Hana Bruml

USHMM, courtesy of Lydia Chagoll

USHMM, courtesy of Gedenkstaette Buchenwald

USHMM, courtesy of Instytut Pamieci Narodowej

Universal Studios Licensing

University of Connecticut, Thomas J. Dodd Papers, Dodd Research Center

University of Louisville, Archives and Special Collections

US Army

USC Shoah Foundation

Vivid Features

The White Helmets (Syria Civil Defense)

Yad Vashem Archives

Yad Vashem Art Museum

Yad Vashem Art Museum, Israel Alfred Glück, The Death March, 1945, Gift of Dr. Bohuslav Kratochvíl

Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

                                                                                                           

Additional Archival Materials

ABC News

ABC Video Enterprises

ABC13 Houston

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Al Jazeera

​​Amalie Mary Reichmann-Robinson, Private Collection

American Jewish Historical Society

Anti-Defamation League

Arman Vardanyan

Armin T. Wegner

Autry Museum of the American West

BBC

Birmingham Post-Herald

Black Stripe

​​Bob Fitch photography archive, Stanford University Libraries

Bournemouth News

C-SPAN

Cambodia's Director of Department of Cinema and Cultural Diffusion

Cambridge University Press

Capital & Main

CBS17

CBS News

CBSN

CNN

Danny Goldberg

Der Stürmer

Ed Stein, Rocky Mountain News

Education Week

Encyclopedia Britannica

EOG

Euronews

EVERFI

Feidin Santana

FOX 4 Dallas - Fort Worth

FOX 11 Los Angeles

George Holliday

Guardian

HBO

Illustrated London News

IMAGO / Allstar

The Independent

Institute of National Remembrance, Poland

Irish Times

Jackson Advocate

James Nachtwey

jcw

Jennifer Wurtz

Journeyman Pictures

KHOU11

La Crosse Tribune

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Lee Adams

Los Angeles Times

Minneapolis Police Department

Montreal Gazette

Montreal Holocaust Museum

MSNBC

Navajo Times

NBC News

The News & Observer

NTR

On Demand News

Osage Auction Company

Ottoman Imperial Archives

PBS NewsHour

PoliTech

Real Time with Bill Maher

Ryan Reynolds

RwandaTV

Samuel Willenberg

Sky Holsey

Slate

Springfield Union

Srebrenica Memorial Center

St. Louis Globe-Democrat

Stanford University Libraries

State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Sydney King, National Park Service

Tacoma Times

TED Conferences

Telegram

Televox SID

Times of Israel

TODAY

TRT World

Twitter

United Nations

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jacob Igra

University of Memphis Libraries, Special Collections, Memphis Press-Scimitar

USA Today

VICE News

Victor Victoria

Walmart

Warner Brothers

Washington Post

WCVB

Weintraub Company

Wellsville Daily Reporter

William Bryan

Windsor, VA Police Department

WION

Yutel

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The Filmmakers Wish to Thank
JCC KRAKOW
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL MUSEUM
KATOWICE AIRPORT, POLAND - WOJCIECHA KORFANTEGO
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION
STUDENTS AND FACULTY AT MACKINTOSH ACADEMY BOULDER, COLORADO
THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER

The 2019 JCC Krakow Staff
JONATHAN ORNSTEIN
SEBASTIAN RUDOL
AGNIESZKA GIŚ
AGNIESZKA KOCUR SMOLEŃ
ALEKSANDRA KONIOR
JUDYTA KAŹMIERCZAK
JUSTYNA ARABSKA
KATARZYNA SPODARYK
KATARZYNA SUSZKIEWICZ
DAWID WOLAK
KASIA LEONARDI
JUSTYNA JANIKOWSKA RADOSZ

​​

Additional Thanks 
CAROL BLACHER
LAUREN CARTER
DEBORAH DAINE
BARBARA DESMOND
JAKUB DESMOND
SEBASTIAN DESMOND
DARYN ELLER
DON FERENCZ
GREG FERKEL
CHUCK FISHMAN
DALIA HANDELMAN

JUSTIN KADIS
ZACHARY DYLAN LARKIN
DANIEL LIBESKIND
WARREN LUSTIG
MARTA MICHALSKA
JULIA MINTZ

ELIJAH NOYES

JAYNE PERILSTEIN
SARAH POLING
VICKI ROSELYN SEGER 
DR. GREGG SLATER
JILL SLATER

RABBI MARC SOLOWAY
KORI STREET

HENRY LUSTIGER THALER
ANDREA WALDRON
AARON ZARROW
MARYLA ZIELINSKI

SOFIA ZWAY

​​

Special Thanks
CARYL ENGLANDER
SUELLEN AND LARRY KADIS
MIKE KASSER
ED SHAPIRO

​​

In loving memory of

JONA GOLDRICH​

Holocaust Survivor, Philanthropist, Founding

Member of Holocaust Museum LA, and the

inspiration for producing this film.

For information about the “Ride For The Living”:

www.ridefortheliving.org

​​

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