“Still I Rise is lovingly dedicated to the memory of Rory Duffy and the extraordinary resilient youth and staff at Covenant House California in Oakland who inspired the film.” -Sheri Shuster
FILM CREDITS
Sheri Shuster, Director and Producer
Rory Duffy, Executive Producer
James Grisom and Sheri Shuster, Editors
Original artwork by Jeremy Vernon
Still I Rise was made possible by the generous support of:
JaMel Perkins
Berkeley Film Foundation
Layda Negrete
Frances and John Raeside
PricewaterhouseCoopers Charitable Foundation
Harnisch Foundation
Elizabeth Rosner
Yolanda Smith
Layda Sansores
Cindy Holbrook
Antonia Lavine
Amelie Ratliff
Jane Gottesman
Anat Shenker-Osorio
Former Mayor of Menlo Park, Catherine Carlton
Ari Vasquez Sansores
Former California State Assembly Member, Sally Lieber
Jill Kunishima
Mary Dirkse
Katharine Earhart
Dafna Golden
Anne Devereux-Mills
Dr. Debbie Glupczynski
Molly Bentley
Danny Wallace
Rose Mukhar
Claudia Pictet
Julie Lawson Timmer
Julie Abrams
Sylvia Paull
Nancy Goldberg
Linda Calhoun
Ian Coleman
Nil Demirçubuk
Ed Pauls and Sharona Shuster
Malik Boykin
Jaime Symons
Glenn Katon
Mary Ford
Independent Arts and Media
ADDITIONAL CREDITS:
Academy-award nominated director James LeBrecht, Sound Remix
Emmy Award-winning Producer, Layda Negrete
DJ Johnson, Producer
Frances and John Raeside, Associate Producers
Lydia Tuan, Associate Producer
Dr. Nikki Jones, Advisor
Maureen Gosling, Editorial Advisor
Original music by Jennifer Johns, Claybon Jelani aka Sinestro, Leah Albright-Byrd, James Grisom, Jerry Grisom, and Daniella Shuster
Gary Coates, Colorist
Sound Design and Mixing, IMRSV Sound
John Nutt, Film Guru
Luis Damian Sanchez, Sheri Shuster, James Grisom, Juan Pablo Bedoya, Mike Miller and Layda Negrete, Cinematographers
Film Partners
The Still I Rise Team is proud to be have partnered with and been supported by: The African American Policy Forum / Re-Present Media/ Berkeley Film Foundation/ National Underground Railroad Freedom Center/ UpFront KPFA Radio / UC Berkeley Department of African American Studies / Crosscurrents KALW San Francisco Public Radio / KTVU News / Freedom FWD/ San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women / Parlay House / #HerDreamDeferred/ Congresswoman Barbara Lee / Palo Alto VC Roundtable / Awesome Without Borders / Nexus Global Youth / San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking / National Council of Jewish Women / M.I.S.S.S.E.Y. / How Women Lead / East Bay Women’s Network / Saul Zaentz Award / GLIDE / Denton Black Film Festival
