PRODUCER/DIRECTOR Shannon Kring
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Marc Gerke
EDITORS Lesley Kubistal | Joona Louhivuori, FCE
CO-PRODUCERS Pearl Daniel-Means | Sophia Ehrnrooth
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Markus Selin | Jukka Helle | Shannon Kring | Tzo’-Nah | Pearl Daniel-Means | Sophia Ehrnrooth | Marc Gerke | Amanda Romania | Nick Polizzi | Ashley Gates Jansen
THIS FILM WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS OF Lula Red Cloud | Roderica Rouse | Beatrice Menase Kwe Jackson | Bonnie White Bull | Eduardo Duran, PhD | Glenn Morris, JD | Alisha Custer | Tipiziwin Tolman
AND OF Bruce Afran | Joan Baez | Robin D. Bair | Stormie Baker | Adam Beach | Brenda White Bull | Stormi Rae White Bull | Vanessa Bullard | Diane David | Leonard Crow Dog | Faith Spotted Eagle | Bruce Ellison | L. Frank | Marcella Gilbert | Josh Halverson | Ryan Harsche | Jennifer Joy Wounded Knee | Winona LaDuke | Jessica Lester | YoNasDa Lonewolf | James “11:11” Martinez | Becky Matthews | Peggy Mcnew | Thuy Nguyen | Moses Brings Plenty | Maria Redin | Candace Sherwood | Sister Miriam Shindelar, OSBS | Sierra Club Legal Team | Ahjani Yepa-Sprague | Will Strongheart | Khannie Saengphachanh Tobacco | Kara Wilson | Reverend Lennox Yearwood, Jr
AS WELL AS THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF Native Education World Intelligence Fund | Quaking Aspen Charitable Trust | The Finnish Film Foundation | Gerald and Janet Carrus Foundation | Stella Artois – Women In Film Finishing Fund 2018 | Fund of Abundance – A Donor-Advised Fund of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors | Shift7 | Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company | T.R.E.A.T.Y. Total Immersion Educational Endowment | AVEK
STORY CONSULTANTS Sandra Kring | Kerry Kring
CONSULTING PRODUCER Kit Thomas
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Misti Dian and Jason Krupek | Dez Stephens | Tracy Scott Ganske
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS Lily Spencer | Tamra Spivey | Kathrin Jakubik | Manda Kalimian
ADDITIONAL DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Nara Garber | Bing Liu
ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS Michael Bendeck | Marie Storme | Alvi Pakarinen | Jody Lee Bradley
PRODUCTION SOUND MIXERS Ken Dabek | Michael Bendeck | Ivan Basauri | Alan Brenner | John Garrett | Salla Hämäläinen | Pirkko Tiitinen | Gil Garcia
POST-PRODUCTION MANAGER Joel Siitonen
POST-PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Hanna Aartolahti
POST-PRODUCTION PICTURE SERVICES Post Control Helsinki | Helsinki, Finland
POST PRODUCER Jukka Kujala
COLORIST Timo Loumanen
DIT Tuomas Kaisti
ONLINE, MASTERING, AND DCP Eero Seppänen
VFX Ville Koivuranta
POST-PRODUCTION SOUND SERVICES Meguru Film Sound | Helsinki, Finland
SOUND MASTERING Pekka Karjalainen
SOUND MIXER Tiia Vestola
MUSIC SUPERVISOR Neil Kring
MUSICIANS Kristiina IImonen – Wind Instruments | Nathan Riki Thomson – Double Bass | Ville Syrjäläinen – Percussion |
Ville Tanttu – Guitars, Ukulele, Electronics | Neil Kring – Guitars | Tokata Iron Eyes – Vocals
MUSIC RECORDING AND MIXING Mikko Haapoja
VOCAL RECORDING Dile Kolanen
TITLE AND GRAPHIC DESIGNER Brad Cornelius
ANIMATOR Dan Walden
ROLL CREDIT DESIGNER Chuck Stephens
STILL PHOTOGRAPHER Cinthia Casco
COLLATERAL MATERIALS Marie Bendeck | Dave Pellegrin | Jared Petrie | Michael Henry Dunn
ADDITIONAL EDITOR Margaret Bedolla
RESEARCHERS Natalie Kring | Sallie Thurman
TRANSCRIPTIONISTS Lisa Miles | Marcy Aldridge | Natalie Kring | Sarah Mason
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Mileen Patel
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Laura Kangasniemi – Playart Productions | Ida Kallio – Solar Films
LEGAL COUNSEL Joe Sisto, BA, MA, BCL, LLB
PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANT Abdul Lala, CPA
HEAD OF ACCOUNTING – SOLAR FILMS Pinka Hämäläinen
PAYROLL ACCOUNTING – SOLAR FILMS Eliina Halonen
PR MANAGER – FINLAND Katja Toivanen
PR MANAGER – US Prodigy Public Relations
SALES REPRESENTATION Espresso Media International
FESTIVAL REPRESENTATION The Film Collaborative
IMPACT MARKETING PARTNER Seed&Spark
STOCK/ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE, IMAGES, AND AUDIO COURTESY OF Edmund J. Higgins III | Democracy Now! | University of South Carolina MIRC | Digital Smoke Signals – Myron Dewey | Cody Lucich | International WOW Company – Josh Fox | Morninglight Films – James Spione | Critical Past | Dick Bancroft – Jaime Haire | Sacred Stone Camp | LaDonna Brave Bull Allard | The Young Family | Sara Jumping Eagle, MD | Sitting Bull College – Mark Holman | Pond5 | CNBC | The Washington Post | Skillly.com | Teena Pugliese | Rob Wilson Photography | Mirrors and Hammers Productions – Lauretta Prevost | Pronghorn Productions – Dan Licht | Indiana University | National Archives | Women of All Red Nations
“Before the White Man” Written by Mathew King | Read by Sky Roosevelt-Morris | From NOBLE RED MAN: LAKOTA WISDOM KEEPER MATHEW KING | Compiled and edited by Harvey Arden
FILMED IN AND AROUND Standing Rock Indian Reservation | Cannon Ball, North Dakota | Fort Yates, North Dakota | McLaughlin, North Dakota | Bismarck, North Dakota | Mandan, North Dakota | Yankton Indian Reservation | Mobridge, South Dakota | Wagner, South Dakota | Marty, South Dakota | Hermosa, South Dakota | Bozeman, Montana | Paola, Kansas | Santa Cruz, California | Los Angeles, California | New York, New York | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Washington, DC | Geneva, Switzerland | Helsinki, Finland
WE HONOR THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF STANDING ROCK WATER PROTECTORS Harry Michael Lee Burk (1926 – 2018),
Loving Husband of Lula Red Cloud AND Miles Dennis Allard (1948 – 2018), Loving Husband of LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
WE GIVE THANKS TO Rani-Henrik Andersson, PhD | Jennifer Corcoran | Jonathan Corcoran | Gina D’Alesandro | Dominique Desrochers | Jacob Devaney | Guillaume Durin | Anna Paulina Eklöf |Nadia Jones-Gailani, PhD | Ana Valladares Gálvez | William Gazecki | Erica Ginsberg | Hanna Ellen Guttorm, PhD | Peter Hamilton | Rachel Heaton | Patrick Hinderdael | Emily Hines | Kristin Hoffmann | Melissa Houghton | David Proctor Hurlin | Jenni Isola | Sister Jenna Irja Seurujärvi-Kari, PhD | Mario Kelly | Maria Kivinen – Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company | Michelle Knapik | Deborah Kern, PhD | Charles H. Lawrence | Kevin Locke | Gemma Lockhart | Victory Lonnquist | Rick Love | Paul Luftenegger | Laurie J. Lussier | Erkko Lyytinen – Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company | Kevin McKiernan | Prairie McLaughlin | Ross Merrin | G.C. Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell | Rachel Nelson | Dennis Neumann | Ronnie Pontiac | Tony Redhouse | Isaac Rivera | Ann Rockefeller Roberts | Rachel Rozycki | Shift Network | Steve Romania | Joanelle Romero – Red Nation Film Festival | Kyle Schierbeck | Aam Singer | Benjamin Singleton | Melissa Sterne | Anne Latham Strojny | Shuling Tong | Pekka Uotila – The Finnish Film Foundation | Women in Film & Video of Washington, DC | World Pulse | David Valdez | Pirjo Virtanen, PhD