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The Big Payback | First Reparations for Black Americans Stirs Up Debate

A Color Farm Media / Feral Films / Reversal Films Production

in association with Level Forward

A Film by Erika Alexander & Whitney Dow

In Memory Of HECKY POWELL (1949 – 2020)

Directed by ERIKA ALEXANDER & WHITNEY DOW

 

Produced by                                                    

BEN ARNON

XAN PARKER

ERIKA ALEXANDER

WHITNEY DOW

 

Executive Producers                                   

JOY-ANN REID

JASON REID

KATY BARKSDALE

MARCO WILLIAMS

Executive Producers                                  

ADRIENNE BECKER

DARA & JEDD CANTY

JASON DELANE LEE

YVONNE HUFF LEE

BRENT ZACHERY

Edited By                                                    

MELISSA NEIDICH

CHRISTOPHER NIZZA

 

Cinematography By                                   

MARGARET BYRNE

KEVIN SHAW

KEITH WALKER

BRETT WILEY

Music By                                                    

ADRIAN YOUNGE

Line Producer                                            

JENNIFER LATHAM

 

Featuring                                                    

KEVIN BROWN

ROSE CANNON

NICHOLAS CUMMINGS

RON DANIELS

MARK DYKES

WILMA DYKES

JOHN FOLEY

KAMM HOWARD

REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE

NINA KAVIN

SEBASTIAN NALLS

TINA PADEN

DINO ROBINSON

ROBIN RUE SIMMONS

CARLIS SUTTON

Associate Producers                                 

NADINE NG

HENRIETTA DOW

LATISHA DICKERSON

Additional Editing                                       

EMIR LEWIS

MELINDA PINECONE

 

Main Title Sequence                                  

DAVID MESTER

 

Animation Editors                                      

TROTTER GOLLIHAR

JOHN POULIOT

Field Producers                                         

SOPHIA CLARK

MELINDA JACKSON

LISA POOLER

DENALI TILLER

 

Additional Photography                             

NEIL BARRETT

DANIELLE BEVERLY

WHITNEY DOW

ERIC FERNANDEZ

BRANDON HABUDA

BRIANA JOHNSON

DANA KUPPER

T.W. LI

MYCHAL MITCHELL

MICHAEL OGNISANTI

ASHLEY O’SHAY

ARIEL SANCHEZ

RAY WHITEHOUSE

Field Sound Mixer                                     

JACOB BROWN

BAILI MARTIN

SHULING YONG

Additional Sound Mixer                             

OLAITAN AGUEH

BRIAN ALBRITTON

GREG BREAZEALE

BRIAN BUCKLEY

ALAN CHOW

TIMOTHY EDSON

NICOLE PHILLIPS NAYLOR

RICHARD K. POOLER

PATRICK TILLMANN

PAUL SCHMITT

HARDY WILLIS

JEREMY ZUNK

 

Drone Pilot                                                 

TROY WALSH

 

Drone Camera Operator                            

MYCHAL MITCHELL

 

Hair & Makeup                                           

FREDERICK SANDERS

CARLTON PICASSO

 

Production Assistants                                

TEJ CHETHIK

MYLES DEMENT

ADIA IVEY

GABRIELLA JONES

JAMIL A. MANGAN

DYLAN NATHAN

MICHAEL ROMO

JAY SIMMS

 

Lead Assistant Editors                               

JORDAN AXELROD

PHILL SKOKOS

 

Assistant Editors                                        

IAN BLISS

MALIQUE DANIELS

ZACHARY GRINFELD

NIKITA LIAMZINE

MARCUS SHUTRUMP

 

Post Production Associate                        

GANEESH GENUS

 

Rights & Clearances Producer                  

KEVINA TIDWELL

 

Archival Producer                                      

MADELEINE LAWRENCE

 

Senior Archival Consultant                        

MEGAN GRAHAM

 

Colorist                                                       

CHRIS RAMEY

Post Producer                                            

ALEX LAVIOLA

 

Deliverables & Quality Control                  

CUT + MEASURE

 

Dialogue Editor and Re-Recording Mixer 

TOM EFINGER

 

Sound Designer                                         

ABIGAIL SAVAGE

 

Audio Post Producer                                 

JEFF SEELYE

 

Sound Studio                                             

RED HOOK POST

 

Score Produced by                                    

ADRIAN YOUNGE

 

Voiceovers                                                 

JASON JOHNSON

RICHARD MALMOS

ROLAND MARTIN

RACHAEL WEST

 

Poster Art                                                   

MICHAEL ROCK

Design Studio                                            

2X4

Production Accountant                              

KELLEY TROTTER

Legal Services                                           

MATTHEW LEFFERTS, ESQ.

Production Staff for Level Forward           

ANDREA AMBAM

CATERIN CAMARGO-ALVAREZ

ROGER CLARK

JULIA DUNETZ

RACHEL GOULD

BEKAH NUTT

TRACY SMITH

RALPH STONE

Archival Footage and Stills Provided by

Alamy

Associated Press

Black Pug Films

Brian Schodorf

Critical Past

C-SPAN

eFootage

Evanston Photographic Studio

Getty Images

Nina Kavin

Rick Mohler

Pond 5

The Powell Family

Molly Riley for Reuters

Same Person Productions

Shorefront Journal

Shutterstock

Robin Rue Simmons

Southern California Public Radio

Josh Steinbauer

Streamline Films, Inc

The United Methodist Church

“We Charge Genocide,” by the Civil Rights Congress

Bob Fitch Photography Archive

Bettye Lane/Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Cheriss May, for The New York Times

Herald Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library

Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Library

Kayana Szymczak, for The New York Times

Allysa Rose, Joseph Eulo, Kelly L., Life Matters, via Pexels

Dr. Ernest C. Withers, Sr., Withers Family Trust

Additional Archival Materials

11 Alive * 1hoseeman (via Youtube) * BBC * The Boston Globe * Christian Cooper * CNN * Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth * Grace Morgan (via Twitter) * Harper's Weekly * Harper's Weekly * House Judiciary Committee * KPIX * Library of Congress * Maverick Media Group * MSNBC * The Nashville American * NBC News * New York Daily News * NJ.com * PBS * PBS Newshour * Prelinger Archives * Reuters * Roman Productions * WGN News * Zainob+Mathew Create * Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston * DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University * “American Panorama: Mapping Inequality” - Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond * Gilman Collection, a Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation * National Archives & Records Administration * National Archives & Records Administration * National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution * Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Locations Provided by

FAITH TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST

FIRST CHURCH OF GOD

FLEETWOOD-JOURDAIN CENTER

FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH OF EVANSTON

GIBBS-MORRISON CULTURAL CENTER

SHOREFRONT LEGACY CENTER

 

Special Thanks

MAYOR DANIEL BISS

ALDERMAN PETER BRAITHWAITE

THE BREAKFAST CLUB

ALDERMAN BOBBY BURNS

LILLIE CONEY

MAYOR STEVE HAGGERTY

KEENAN KELLER

JULIANNE MALVEAUX

JANAY QUEEN NAZAIRE

ALDERWOMAN ANN RAINEY

CITY MANAGER KIMBERLY RICHARDSON

ADAM ROTHMAN

GLENN RUSHING

Fiscal Sponsor

CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY

Funding Provided By

JUST FILMS | FORD FOUNDATION

TOMKAT MEDIA

WILLIAM F. HARNISCH FOUNDATION

CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT (CMP)

NICOLE COMMISSIONG & DARNELL ARMSTRONG

 

Investment Funding Provided by

SPRING POINT PARTNERS

 

Acquisition Funding Provided by

ITVS

BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA (BPM)

Original Series Funding Provided By

CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

ACTON FAMILY GIVING

FORD FOUNDATION

JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION

WYNCOTE FOUNDATION

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

The Big Payback is a co-production of Feral Films / Reversal Films and The Big Payback, LLC,  in association with Color Farm Media and Level Forward.

 

This program was produced by The Big Payback LLC, which is solely responsible for its content.

© 2022 The Big Payback, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Noelle Montes

Update: 2024-05-17