writer, director, producer
Nicole Betancourt
composer, sound designer
Bray Poor
producer
Rose Kowalski
consulting producers
Jeanne Betancourt
Cynthia Kane
Sheila Nevins
Bray Poor
featuring
(in order of appearance)
Nicole Betancourt
Jeanne Betancourt
Bray Poor
Pilar Betancourt-Poor
Blue Betancourt-poor
on-camera experts
(in order of appearance)
Doña Enriqueta Contreras
Grandmother Margaret Behan
Grandmother Nancy Andry
Marina Yuabova, DNP, FNP
Adrienne Maree Brown
also featuring
Tatiana Erdman
Elena Frid, MD
Nzingha Fofanah-Pollok
advisory council
Alan Berliner
Edie Farwell
Andrea Ferrando
Lisa Gossels
Susan Kaplan
Julia Novy
Tricia Regan
Monica Rivera Mindt
Nonette Royo
Peter Saraf
Any Sulistyowati
Juan Carlos Zaldívar
associate producer
Fernanda Rossi
contributing producers
Stephanie Joyce
Jade Netanya Ullmann
executive producer spain
Rose Kowalski
director of photography
Nicole Betancourt
body in earth crew
director of photography
Anna Molins
production designer
Mònica Garrigó
location manager
Pere Llorens
frida crew
associate producer
Darcy Thompson
director of photography
Andrew DeNatale
production designer
Leah Hewlings
hair & makeup
Destiny Paloma Rice
waters of march crew
director of photography
Braulio Jatar
audio engineer
Charles Coes
musical arrangement
Timothy Monghan
additional camera
Alexandra Blake
Rachel Cassia Glowaki
Alex Emerson Perez
Tatiana Erdman
Alan Maynard
Alex Mindt
Tricia Regan
Nathan Rivera Mindt
Darcy Thompson
Sophia Treanor
Paget Walker
production assistants
Blue Betancourt-Poor
Pilar Betancourt-Poor
Silas Farwell-Meade
Lily Kress
Majda L’Aziri
Nicholas Pertz Kelly
Abigail Singer
Manuela Soares
Asher Weber-Shute
sarah lawrence college production intern
Kyra Johnsen
editor
Nicole Betancourt
consulting editor
Toby Shimin
consulting story editor
Monica Sly
assistant editors
Lissa Deonarain
Darcy Thompson
post-production
Antaviana Films
executive director antaviana films
Rosa Fusté
post-production & vfx director
Bernat Aragonés
post-production supervisor
Marc Dominici
post-production coordinator
Kike Unzu
post-production assistant
Anabel Rodríguez
conform
Pau Montesinos
color grading and finishing
Cristóbal Bolaños
re-recording mixer
Dani Zacarias
graphic design
Karin du Croo, Nueve Ojos
additional graphic design
Liza Miller
additional vfx
Joan Aliaga
tech consultant
Judd Blaise
climate researcher
Andrew Michael Meador
community engagement consultant
Wendy Cohen
archive consultant
Nancy Marcotte
production consultant
Elizabeth Westrate
legal advisors
Focus Media Law Group
Justine Jacob
Orly Ravid
accountant
Ross Smallowitz
Geòrgia Simon
translation revision
Joanaina Font
the unfixing installation
video engineer
Jeremy Allen
associate producers
Kyrie McCormick, Liza Miller
video documentation
Braulio Jatar
partners and funders
Allied Productions
Charcoal Blue
Electric Ladybug Garden
Five Ohm
Green Oasis Community Garden
New York City Artist Corp
publicity stills
Heidi Gutman
photo retouching
Athena Torri
communication strategist
Allaya Cooks-Campbell
archive material
Claire Yaffa
©1992 Joel Sternfeld courtesy The Hart Island Project
©2020 Sean Vegessi & Alon Sicherman courtesy The Hart Island Project
Shutterstock
additional material
Labor and Childbirth film: Medical Arts Productions CC0
Octavia E. Butler photograph: Ching Ming Cheung
Starlings murmurations video: Marco Valk
music
Waters of March, Antonio Carlos Jobim
1972 © Corcovado Music Corp.
star donors
Russel Glassman
Mike Powers
donors
The Yarrows
Andy Fisher
Jane Graver
Zelda Greenstein
Judith Halbreich
Ian Kelley
Elaine Kohrman
Deidre Latour
Karen Odyniec
Manuela Soares
Susan Sussman
thank you to my family, especially my children
Pilar and Blue, for trusting me with our story.
special thanks
Victoria Cummings
Rosa Fusté
Russell Glassman
Cyndi Goretski Walker
Lynda Hansen
Melora Hardin
Roanne Kolvenbach
Peter Lubell
Joanna Macy
Òscar Sanz
Elizabeth Sawin
Manuela Soares
Denise Schaeffer
Debra Zimmerman
thanks
Chelo Alverez-Stehle
Julie Anderson
Pep Arcos
Judith Azaf
David Banks
Geof Bartz
Mindahi Bastida
Mark Beam
Julia Barco
Hassan Bhatti
Elana Broitman
Carles Brugueras
Duana Butler
Doug Block
Virginia Bullington
Mia Chung
Debby Corper
Breck Costin
Mark Cummings
Pep Feliu
Anabel Fernández
Greg Gray
Diana Holtzberg
Judith Helfand
Tracey Holder
Melinda Hunt
Meritxell Iglesias
Susan Levine
Cecilia Lidin
Joan Lluró
Danielle Lovett
Linda Manning
Susan Margolin
Veni Markovsky
Jay Mead
Cherylle McFarlane
Susanne Moser
Alex Navarro
Kimie Nishikawa
Sandra Owén:nakon Deer
Mireia Pozo
Thom Powers
Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm
Guillermo Roel
Analise Roland
Therese Russo
Òscar Sanz
Charlie Sato
Amy Schatz
Amber Shirley
Tue Steen Müller
Aurora Sulli
Peter Twyman
Stephanie von Lukowicz
Terri Wilder
Bethany Yarrow
Mary Yarrow
Peter Yarrow
Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows
The Work That Reconnects
505BX
ACSFCEM
Casa Lladó
Motion Pictures Enterprises, Inc
Multisolving Institute
filming locations
Dominican Republic, Mexico, Spain,
United States of America
The filmmakers honor the land that we worked on, including unceded indigenous land,
and the people that have cared for and do care for that land including
the Ciguayo, Corchaug, Mixteco, Munsee Lanape, Mohican,
P’urhépecha, Secatogue, Taíno, Ute, and Zapoteco.
This project was completed with support from
Karen Toffler Charitable Trust
New York Council on the Arts
Women Make Movies Production Assistance Program
Antaviana Films
and participated in
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