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 Capri Brown
Director of Photography: Liz Dory
Sound Recordist: Jeffrey Livesey
Original Score by: Roger C. Miller

From left to right: Katrina Browne and Juanita Brown

From left to right: Elizabeth Delude-Dix, Alla Kovgan, Katrina Browne and Sarah Archambault.

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

For a full list of film credits, click here

Bios:

Katrina Browne, Producer/Director/Writer

Ms. Browne produced and directed the Emmy-nominated Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, a documentary about her discovery that her ancestors, the DeWolfs of Rhode Island, were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history.  The film follows her and nine fellow descendants as they retrace the Triangle Trade, from New England, to Ghana, to Cuba, uncovering the vast extent of the North’s complicity in slavery, and grappling with questions of repair in the present day.  Traces of the Trade premiered at Sundance in 2008, and then aired on PBS’ acclaimed POV series to critical acclaim.  The film has contributed significantly to the growing public awareness in the last fifteen years about the role of the North in slavery and has impacted countless people in thousands of screening events.  Ms. Browne and several other DeWolf descendants still travel extensively with the film as speakers and facilitators, in the U.S. and overseas.  With fellow descendant James DeWolf Perry, Katrina founded the Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery to help improve how slavery is taught in schools and interpreted at historic sites and museums.  Traces of the Trade contributed to the Episcopal Church’s 2006 decision to apologize for and address its role in slavery.  Ms. Browne now works as a consultant for the Church as part of their Becoming Beloved Community racial justice and healing initiatives.  She has developed a film-based dialogue series for congregations called Sacred Ground that invites dialogue on race and racism (including whiteness) across political and socioeconomic differences.  Katrina has a Masters in Theology and Ethics from the Pacific School of Religion.  Earlier in her career she co-founded Public Allies, an AmeriCorps program now operating in 24 cities.  For a longer bio click here.

Alla Kovgan, Editor/Co-Director/Writer
Born in Moscow, Alla Kovgan has divided her time between Europe and the U.S., making films and projects with artists from different disciplines since 1996. She brings 15 years of experience working with dance and film collaborations on screen, VR and in theatre, as well as a strong record as a documentary director/writer/editor. Alla’s film Nora, about Zimbabwe-born dancer Nora Chipaumire, has been presented at over 120 festivals as well as at MoMA, the Louvre, and Tate Modern. It was selected to represent the United States at Input 2011 and received 30 awards in every kind of genre (fiction, documentary, video art). Within the last decade, Alla co-directed, co-wrote and edited an Emmy-nominated Traces of the Trade (Sundance, PBS) and Movement (R)evolution Africa (ZDF/ARTE), which “Village Voice” described as a “knockout”. Alla also edited My Perestroika (Sundance, PBS, Silverdocs, Full Frame). Her first VR piece “Devil’s Lungs” (2017) won the top award at the Vienna Shorts Festival, which made her an artist-in-residence at the Museum Quarter 21 in Vienna. For the last five years, Alla has been developing a stereoscopic 3D film about the legendary choreography Merce Cunningham. Cunningham (2019), distributed worldwide, including by Magnolia Pictures in the US and by Dogwoof in the UK, is a French/German/US co-production funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Warhol Foundation, NEA, National Cinematography Center (CNC – France), ARTE/BR TV, Hamburg, Wuttenberg, NRW Film Funds, BKM and FFA Federal German Funds, French-German Mini-Treaty Fund and private investors/donors. She is a recipient of many grants and awards including a Poynter Fellowship at Yale University (2012), a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship (2011), a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship (2009), Brother Thomas Fellowship (2009) for artists working at a high level of excellence and creativity. For Alla’s web site, click here.

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 documentary currently in production. She produced Tell Another Mother, an independent radio project of first-person 2004 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. She is currently producing Alla Kovgan’s 3-D dance film on the choreography of Merce Cunningham.

Juanita Capri Brown, Co-Producer

Juanita Capri Brown is the principal of Juanita Capri Brown & Associates, a societal equity consulting practice. As Traces co-producer, she co-designed the transatlantic journey and facilitated many of the DeWolf family discussions seen in the film. Juanita specializes in racial equity, healing and strategic engagement. She supports the public and non-profit sectors, and communities across the nation and internationally to undertake breakthrough dialogues and processes. Her work results in staff, students, parents, educators and executives more productively agitating systems and transforming relationships in their respective contexts.

Juanita’s previous work includes project and change management for the East Oakland Building Healthy Communities initiative of The California Endowment, Wells Fargo Services Company, Deloitte Consulting’s public sector practice, and Partners in School Innovation. She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford and then her Master of Public Policy from the Goldman School here at Cal in 2006. A Chicago native, Juanita cherishes her family roots which run deep in the state of Alabama.

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.
Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr.: Dean and Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, UCLA School of Public Affairs
Norman Lear: Award-winning television and film producer and director; civic leader
Joy DeGruy: 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