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LIFE MATTERS


Film Credits

Producer/Director
Kyle Boyd

Associate Producers
Enid Harlow
Charlotte Angel

Camera
Mike Harlow

Additional Camera
Kyle Boyd
Daniel Meyers
Estel Dillon
Emerson Bell

Editors
Thom Zimny
Kyle Boyd
Charlotte Angel

Audio/Grip
Blair Elliott
Doug Bowers

Interview Participants
Curtis Boyd
Ruth Boyd
Karol Black
Janet Gideon
LaMerle Boyd
Ben Johnson
Charlie Potter
Bill Kugle
Gary Shack
Robert Cooper
Ray Flachmeier
Eva Regina Cox
Glenna H. Boyd
Aunt Sis
Alvie Harrington
Wade Johnson
Eddie Smith
Lucille Browning Teague
Benny Latt
Klint Black
Karoline Black
Ellen Parlich
Deborah McClelland
Gerald Rodriguez
Philip Benim
Dan Mosher
Kurt Belting
William Peckat
Donald Kanaley
Lewis Koplik
Zuzanna Fennell
Lisa Gerard
Emerson Bell
Shirley Reynolds
Bobby Boyd
Amy McGrane
Aunt Thelma

Archive Footage Courtesy of
Texas A&M Archives
The Federation of Texas A & M Mother’s Clubs
Susan Kent Caudill/Caudill, Inc
The U.S. Library of Congress
National Archives
The Gideon Family Films
KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth
Tom Karges/TKO Productions
U.S. Department of Labor
Kenneth J. Pfeiffer, Ltd.
Independent Film Laboratory
Concentric Media

"Love-in" footage provided by Les Blank
from "God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance" Courtesy of Flower Films

“Clinic Arson” Footage Courtesy of
KDFW News, NW Communications of Texas, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Music
"New Orleans Instrumental No. 1"
Performed by R.E.M.,
Courtesy of Warner Brothers Records Inc.,
by arrangement with Warner Special Products

All other music written by Michael Lipton,
performed by the Carpenter Ants

Dialogue Re-recording
Phillip Howard
The Right Sound

Special Thanks
Dad & Glenna
All My Other Parents and Family
The Fairmount Center and Staff
Jim Brown & NYU UG Video Department
Cambridge Research Group, Ltd.
E. Ty Gardner
Dorothy Fadiman
Concentric Media
Christine Choy
Lindsay Ackroyd
The Gideon Family
Steve Handelsman
James T. Roderick
The National Abortion Federation
Rev. Howard Moody
Rome Church
Janet Kugle
Mark Gorney
The Universalist Unitarian
Church of Peoria, IL
Chris Beaver
Judy Irving
Dan LeRoy
Steve Fesenmaier
Pam Haynes
Andy Ridenour
The Bowers Family
Cavendish Galyean
Athens Daily Review
Dave Long

Fiscal Sponsor
Film News Now Foundation

Funding for this project was provided by:
The Jerome Foundation
The New York State Council on the Arts

This program was produced by Grayscale, LLC, which is solely responsible for its content.

Copyright ©MMII, Grayscale, LLC All Rights Reserved

Presented by the Independent Television Service (ITVS),
with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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