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