Film Credits

Producer/Director
Christopher Wong

Editor/Co-Producer/Animation
Zebediah Smith

DP/Co-Producer
Jillian Elizabeth

Co-Producer
W. Scott Lyon

Executive Producer
Renee Tajima-Peña

Co-Executive Producers
Calvin & Amy Chin

Original Score
iZLER

Animation Director
Robin Steele

Associate Producer
Gwyn Welles

Consulting Producers
Charles Vogl Christopher Wolfe

Additional Camera
Aleks Degtyarev Aaron Schock

Sound Recordist
Walter Benavides

Boom Operator
Chris Moyer Lawrence V. Behr, II Razzaaq Boykin

Voiceover Recording
Neil Benezra

Music Editor
Scott Johnson

Sample Programming
Dan Piscina

Score Mixer
Greg Koller

Music Supervisor
Terri d’Ambrosio

Post-Production Sound
Nathan Smith, NL3 Audio

Sound Editor
Art Currim

Digital Finishing
Modern Digital/Seattle

Digital Finishing & Titles
Kevin Adams

Digital Color Grading
Bill Lord

Data Management
Jesse Howards

DI Coordinator
Kathie McCallister

DI Supervisor
David Fassio

Assistant Editors
Tanner Roth Veronica Garcia

Touch-Up Graphics
Aaron McLane

Post-Production Assistant
Elizabeth Bowman

Transcription
Teresa Conboy Jaime Omar Yassin Sara Westrate Barnes

Translation
John Chow Arthur Yee

Advisory Board – Filmmakers
Marina Goldovskaya James Longley Walt Louie Frances Reid Judith Vecchione

Advisory Board – Educators
Deborah Meier Dr. Eugene Kim Dr. Michael Brown

Website Design
Jamie Carroll

Website Programming
PLUME

Music
“Perfect Praise” Written by Brenda Joyce Moore (BMI) Published By BALUTIK'S Music

Special thanks
Dr. Pamela Fraser-Abder
Dr. Jacqueline Ancess
Tom Vander Ark
Bally Total Fitness
Angeanette Baskerville
Dartmouth SEAD Program
Ron & Jill Dexter
Kwok & Theresa Dong
Kristin Feeley
Reaux Flagg
Norm Fruchter
Bronwyn & Keith Gurtler
Joel Klein
Cara Mertes
New Life Community Church
New Visions for Public Schools
Dr. Pedro Noguera
Jan & Jim Ross
Barbara & Richard Smith
Rahdi Taylor
Win-Sie Tow
Eunice Wong
Gilbert & Sandra Wong
Kian Wong
Senya Wong

Funding provided by
The Center for Asian American Media
Calvin & Amy Chin
Sundance Institute for Documentary Film
Alfred & Lydia Wong
American Documentary, Inc.
The Pacific Pioneer Fund
Steve & June Kim
Henry Louis
Margaret Li
Harvey Liu
Lawrence Wu
Autumn Moon Productions
Chade-Meng Tan
Charles Woo
Enoch & Grace Huang
Julian Liau & Clara Chae
Pfizer Foundation
Ray Ying
Stephen & Caroline Kowalski
Vicki Shu & Robert Smolin
William Lee

And others. A complete list is available from PBS.

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