Production Credits

It's STILL Elementary

It's STILL Elementary

This moving story and political drama revisits the students and teachers from the original groundbreaking film, It's Elementary, and discovers the profound impact of using film as a tool for social change.

Director:
Debra Chasnoff

Produced by:
Debra Chasnoff
Sue Chen

Co-Director
Johnny Symons

Co-Producer
Kate Stilley Steiner

Consulting Producer
Helen S. Cohen

Editors
Kate Stilley Steiner
Shirley Thompson

Camera
S. Leo Chiang
Johnny Symons
Fawn Yacker

Music
Miriam Cutler

Additional Camera
Jake Clennell
Andy Schocken

Sound Recordist
Gerry Berkowitz
Sue Chen
Gabe Monts
Diane Oliver
Johnny Symons

Additional Editing
Kathleen Dargis

Assistant Editors
Shane Nye
Molli Amara Simon

Color Correction
Gary Coates

Sound Mix
Lora Hirschberg

Motion Graphics
David Murray

Archival Research Consultant
Kenn Rabin

Additional Research
Elaine Elinson

Production Assistants
Noah Chasnoff
Charlie Forest
Eric Westpheling

Transcriptionists
Gail Camhi
Production Transcripts

Interns
Natascha Dimitrijevic
Vanessa MacEachen
Kat Touschner

Interviewees
Samira Abdul Karim
Renaud Beaudoin
Bob Chase
Raimol Cortado
Nancy Cunningham
Kevin Jennings
Kerry Lobel
Daniel Meier
Ken Miller
Peter Morrill
Mary Morten
Chloe Moushey
Ron Pisaneschi
Brandon Rice
Beth Reis
Emily Rosen-King
Frieda Takamura
Robbie Tate-Brickle
Shirley Thompson
Jack Van Valkenburgh
Melanie Walker
Daithi Wolfe

Special thanks
Tim and Maggie Hannapel
James Hormel
Nancy Otto
Robert West

News footage courtesy of
ABCNews VideoSource
CBS
CNN
MSNBC

Funding generously provided by
The Ford Foundation
The Gill Foundation
Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
CS&B Fund of the Community Foundation Sonoma County
The L.P. Brown Foundation
The Frank Foundation
And many generous individual donors

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