Director, Producer, and Writer: Katrina Browne
Co-Director, Editor, and Writer: Alla Kovgan
Co-Director and Executive Producer: Jude Ray
Co-Producer and Executive Producer: Elizabeth Delude-Dix
Co-Producer: Juanita Brown
Director of Photography: Liz Dory
Sound Recordist: Jeffrey Livesey
Original Score by: Roger C. Miller
Animators: Handcranked Productions
Supervising Editor: William Anderson
Consulting Producers: William Anderson, Llewellyn Smith
Associate Producers: Sara Archambault, Catherine Benedict, Heather Kapplow, Leslie Koren, Beth Sternheimer
Line Producers: Africanus Aveh, Boris Crespo, Amy Geller, Lucia Small
Researcher: Jennifer Anderson
Historical Consultants: James DeW. Perry, Joanne Pope Melish
Music Supervisors: Daniel Arriaga, Alla Kovgan

Katrina Browne, Producer/Director/Writer
Katrina Browne is the seventh generation descendant of Mark Anthony DeWolf, the family’s first slave trader. Before launching this film and family process in 1999, Ms. Browne served as Outreach Planning Coordinator for the film adaptation of Anna Deavere Smith’s critically acclaimed play about the LA riots, Twilight: Los Angeles. She consulted with race relations and media experts to plan a national outreach campaign to use the PBS broadcast and video distribution as the basis for community dialogue on race, ethnicity and equity. She came to that work and to filmmaking from writing a Masters thesis comparing the role that Greek tragedies played in civic life in ancient Greece to the untapped potential of film to catalyze civic dialogue today. She wrote this thesis while earning a Masters in Theology at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. Prior to her graduate studies she worked as a senior staffperson at Public Allies, an AmeriCorps program now operating in 15 cities that she co-founded in 1991 in Washington, DC to recruit more young people and people of color into nonprofit careers. She held responsibilities in national start-up, site program development, evaluation and fundraising. She has a B.A. from Princeton University, where she studied cultural anthropology with a focus on oral history, and wrote a senior thesis on France’s role in the Holocaust.

Alla Kovgan, Editor/Co-Director/Writer
Alla Kovgan is a Boston-based filmmaker born in Moscow. Her films, and the films she has co-directed, have been screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Lincoln Center (New York), Brooklyn Academy of Music, Montreal Film Festival (Canada), New York African Film Festival, and broadcast on ZDF TV (Germany). Alla has been involved in creating “intermedia” performances (with KINODANCE and Elaine Summers), making dance films (with Alissa Cardone, Victoria Marks and Nicola Hawkins), and working on documentaries about dance (Movement (R)evolution Africa with Joan Frosch and Terpsychore’s Captives II with Efim Reznikov). She is an international director of the St. Petersburg Dance Film Festival KINODANCE in Russia and a co-curator of Balagan Experimental Film Series in Boston. In 2007, Alla was awarded a film commission from the Experimental Media and Performance Arts Center for nora chipaumire: a physical biography. Together with Robin Hessman, Alla is currently working on a documentary, Russia’s Pepsi Generation, about the last generation of Soviet children to grow up behind the “Iron Curtain,” to be broadcast on PBS’s P.O.V. in 2009.

Jude Ray, Co-Director/Executive Producer
Ms. Ray is an award-winning writer/producer/director with wide-ranging experience as a filmmaker of social issue, cultural and historical documentaries and investigative reports. Her credits include programs on PBS, HBO, BBC, A&E and Turner Broadcasting, and a five-year freelance stint with the BBC as an investigative reporter, U.S. producer, field, segment and associate producer for the acclaimed public affairs series, Panorama. Her producing, associate producing and writing credits on prime-time documentary specials and series for major broadcasters include Fare Game (PBS, NHK and international broadcast), What Price Clean Air? (PBS), Russia for Sale: The Hard Road to Capitalism (PBS), “Increase and Multiply” (PBS), A Walk Through the Twentieth Century With Bill Moyer (PBS), and Anatomy of Love (TBS). She has also served as senior writer and consulting producer for independent feature documentaries, including H2 Worker, which won a Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and Calling the Ghosts: A Story about Rape, War, and Women (Sundance/Soros Fund, HBO). Ms. Ray began her career as a media activist with the pioneering media advocacy organization, Association for Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF), and went on to work on political spots for the Sawyer-Miller Group and story development for HBO. Ms. Ray is a recipient of the National Women in Broadcast and Radio Award and numerous grant awards, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and New York Times Foundation (for her post-9/11 work on trauma relief for parents and children).

Elizabeth Delude-Dix, Co-Producer/Executive Producer
Elizabeth Delude-Dix wrote, directed and produced Stories from Stone and No Simple Truth two short films on slavery in Rhode Island that screened on RI PBS. She is a co-producer of First Face, an ITVS funded documentary currently in production. She produced Tell Another Mother, an independent radio project of first-person ‘04 presidential campaign spots that aired in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. She is a founder of Rhode Island’s first public radio station, WRNI and a past Vice-President of the Foundation for Ocean State Public Radio. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of I-Witness Video a New York based archive. As an International Observer with IPEC, an independent human rights organization, she filmed and photographed contentious parades in Northern Ireland. Ms. Delude-Dix taught as an Adjunct Professor of Cultural and Historic Preservation in an undergraduate program she helped develop at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. She is a past Board Chair and Grants Chair of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and has served as a board member and advisor to a number of arts and advocacy organizations.

Juanita Capri Brown, Co-Producer
Juanita Brown is the Assistant Director for Development at the Coalition of Essential Schools, a national education reform organization. Ms. Brown co-designed the Traces transatlantic journey and also served as a facilitator during some of the DeWolf family discussions. Prior to the film, Juanita creatively engaged students and teachers at San Francisco Bay Area schools in difficult dialogue around community building, race, class and gender identity politics. She also developed policy and organizational analyses for education and nonprofit organizations in California such as Oakland Unified School District, Oakland Small Schools Foundation, and Bay Area International Development Organizations. Juanita holds a Bachelor’s from Stanford University and a Master’s of Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. She also studied at the University of Ghana in West Africa. A Chicago native and lover of things creative, Juanita lives in San Francisco where she enjoys dancing, writing, and tea-warmed conversations.

Liz Dory, Director of Photography
Liz Dory has shot numerous documentaries, ranging in cinematic style from formal, pictorial composition to verite hand-held camerawork, in formats from mini DV to HD and 35mm. Her cinematography is featured in the documentary An American Solider for filmmaker Edet Belzberg, also premiering at Sundance 2008 in competition; and in Refuge, a film about Tibetan refugees featuring the Dalai Lama, Melissa Mathison and Martin Scorcese, and with the directing and producing team of David and Laure Shapiro. She is currently in production with the Shapiros on their latest film, Finishing Heaven for director Mark Mann. Her camerawork is featured in broadcast documentaries for Nova, The Discovery Channel and National Geographic and television presenters such as 60 Minutes. Liz also worked on the critically acclaimed documentaries JAZZ, Frank Lloyd Wright, Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony: Not For Ourselves Alone for director Ken Burns and cinematographer Buddy Squires and the series New York for director Ric Burns.

Roger C. Miller, Original Score
Musician Roger Miller currently performs in The Alloy Orchestra, on keyboards. This critically-acclaimed group composes new scores for silent era films and tours internationally. He is also in the rock band Mission of Burma, on guitar and vocals. This group has 6 albums out, tours internationally, and has been praised in the New York Times, Spin, Rolling Stone, etc. He began scoring animation and film in 1993 and continues this work today.

Handcranked Productions, Animation/Graphics
The company was formed in 2001 by Bryan Papciak & Jeff Sias who first worked together at Olive Jar Studios in Boston, where they directed highly original mixed-media spots for television and film. Handcranked produces commercials and graphics for clients such as Sesame Street, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Samsung, HBO, NBC, ESPN, and the Sundance Channel. They are also producing their own independent art & film projects including the feature documentary, American Ruins.

William Anderson, Supervising Editor / Consulting Producer
William has over 100 theatrical and broadcast editing credits (for PBS, HBO, NBC, etc.) including: Tupperware!, Sweet Old Song, Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard, Errol Morris’s A Brief History of Time, Slavery Documents, The Holocaust, and Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima (Academy Award nominee, Best Documentary Feature). He has received four Emmy nominations, an Emmy Certificate, and the American Cinema Editors Eddy.

Llewellyn Smith, Consulting Producer
From 1988-1995, Mr. Smith served as Series Editor for the critically acclaimed PBS history series American Experience. He was Project Director for the Emmy Award-winning series Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery, and produced/directed Part IV. He also produced/directed Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory (PBS, 2001), and Part III of Race: The Power of an Illusion (PBS, 2003); and Forgotten Genius (PBS, 2007).

Advisors

Macky Alston: Director, Family Name
Ron Bailey: Professor of African American Studies, Northeastern University
Edward Ball: Journalist and author, Slaves in the Family, winner of the 1998 National Book Award
Chuck Collins: Director, Program on Inequality and the Common Good, Institute for Policy Studies; Co-founder, Responsible Wealth and United for a Fair Economy; Co-author, Wealth and Our Commonwealth with Bill Gates Sr.
Norman Lear: Award-winning television and film producer and director; civic leader
Joy DeGruy Leary: Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Portland State University; author, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Peggy McIntosh: Associate Director, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women; author, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
Joanne Pope Melish: Associate Professor of History, University of Kentucky; author, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780-1860
Alyce Myatt: Managing Director, Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media; former Vice President of Programming, PBS
Rev. Canon Edward Rodman: Professor of Pastoral Theology and Urban Ministry, Episcopal Divinity School
Ellen Schneider: Executive Director, Active Voice