film making team
The DAWNLAND team was invited to document the TRC by Maine-Wabanaki REACH, Wabanaki tribal chiefs, and communities in an ongoing process of relationship-building and affirming consent.
Directors: Adam Mazo, Ben Pender-Cudlip
Producers: Adam Mazo, N. Bruce Duthu, J.D. (Houma)
Executive Producers: Heather Rae, Beth Murphy, Shirley K. Sneve (Rosebud Sioux)
Director of Photography: Ben Pender-Cudlip
Editor: Kristen Salerno
Composer: Jennifer Kreisberg (Tuscarora)
Learning Director: Mishy Lesser, Ed.D.
Impact Producer: Tracy Rector (Multicultural), Adam Mazo
Senior Advisor: Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy)
CONSULTANTS
Margaret D. Jacobs, Ph.D., University of Nebraska, author, A Generation Removed
Anne Makepeace, director, Tribal Justice, We Still Live Here, Rain in a Dry Land
Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki), National Film Board of Canada, director, Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises, Trick or Treaty, Hi-Ho Mistahey!, Incident at Restigouche, and others
Geo Neptune (Passamaquoddy), artist, educator
ADVISORS
Chico Colvard, University of Massachusetts Boston adjunct lecturer, documentary filmmaker (A Family Affair)
Donna Hicks, Ph.D., associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, author of Dignity
Dave Joseph, LICSW, senior vice president for program, Public Conversations Project
Robert Koenig, film director (Returned), producer, writer, and editor
Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Ph.D., assistant professor for educational leadership and higher education at Boston College
Dick Olsen, strategic planner and fundraising consultant for major non-profits
SUPPORTERS & PARTNERS