Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
MTV Documentary Films, Take Flight Films & Firelight Films
Using testimony from the WPA’s oral histories, this short documentary explored the practice of forced reproduction in the antebellum South and spotlighted the agency of Mary Gaffney, an enslaved woman who took control of her body and fertility.
CREDITS
Director/Producer: Nazenet Habtezghi
Editor: Steven J. Golliday
Producer: Lauren Wimbush
Composer: Osei Essed
Associate Producers: Marissa Heringer, Zach Sell
Associate Editor: Ruella Rouf
Additional Editing: Siobhan Dunne
Orchestrator/Music Editor: Santiago Arias-Rozo
Voiceover: Amara Granderson, Moses Habtezghi, Liz Mikel, Pernell Walker
Cinematographers: Mead Hunt, Colin Bressler
Sound Recordist: J.T. Takagi
Assistant Camera: Alejandro Cortes, Anton Savenko
Production Assistants: Lou Aguliar, Daniel Bommer
Color Grading: Hell's Color Kitchen
Colorist: Ian Heifetz
Post-Production Supervisor: Sheila Lynch
Senior Conform Editor: Bahron Thomas
Post-Production Coordinator: Karla Rodriguez
Director of Finishing: Keith Shapiro
Assistant Editor: Javier Chorrillos
Audio Post Facility: String & Can
Sound Editor: Benny Mouthon, CAS
Recording Studios: Dallas Audio Post, Clean Cuts, String & Can
Graphics Producer/Designers: Reginald William Butler, Are Creative Inc.
Executive Producers: Nina L. Diaz, Liza Burnett Fefferman, Stanley Nelson, Sheila Nevins
Executive in Charge of Production, MTVE: Marko Radosavljevic
Head of Distribution: Michael Tuckman
Consulting Producer: Greg Rhem
Publicity: Kelly Anderson, Karen Damoah, Lance G. McPherson
Executive in Charge, Firelight Films: Marica L. Smith
Executive in Charge of Production, Firelight Films: Keith Brown
Director of Finance & Operations, Firelight Films: Raiah Vitalis
Supervising Producer, Firelight Films: Julia Pontecorvo
Supervising Producer, Firelight Films: Sian-Pierre Regis
Archivist: Rosemary Rotondi
Production Assistant: Tannya Rodriguez
Academic Advisors: Marcia Chatelain, Josef Soret