MEET THE TEAM

KIM A. SNYDER

Director / Producer

Kim A. Snyder’s previous film was the Peabody award-winning documentary Newtown, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and was named in Newsweek and Huffington Post among the top films of 2016. Newtown screened at premiere festivals worldwide and was theatrically released followed by a national broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens as the most widely watched documentary of the past decade.  Her most recent film Notes from Dunblane: Lessons from a School Shooting premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and was awarded Best Documentary Short.  Snyder’s also directed, Welcome to Shelbyville, that was nationally broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2011.  In 2007, Kim co-founded the BeCause Foundation to direct and produce a series of socially conscious short documentaries which have won numerous awards with campaigns furthering the work of the social innovators they highlight. Kim’s award-winning directorial debut feature documentary, I Remember Me was theatrically distributed by Zeitgeist Films. In 1994, she associate-produced the Academy Award-winning short film Trevor. Kim graduated with a Masters in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and resides in New York City.

MARIA CUOMO COLE

Producer

Maria Cuomo Cole is the award-winning producer of the feature documentary, Newtown, that won a Peabody Award and premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.  In her career, she has tackled such relevant subjects as gun violence, homelessness, veterans’ PTSD, domestic violence and sexual assault.  Most recently, she executive produced The Hunting Ground, directed by Kirby Dick. This Emmy and Peabody award-winning film has been lauded as a powerful investigation into the epidemic of sexual assaults on college campuses. In 2012, Ms. Cuomo Cole worked with the same film team, executive producing the 2014 Oscar® nominated documentary, The Invisible War. This groundbreaking documentary about the epidemic of rape and sexual violence in the U.S. military, which served as a catalyst for federal legislation and enacted federal policy reforms.

FIL EISLER

Composer

Fil Eisler faithfully composes music that embodies both story and character. Known for his signature themes and inventive dramatic solutions, his work can be heard on the upcoming films How To Be Single (New Line Cinema, starring Dakota Johnson and Rebel Wilson), CHiPs (Warner Bros starring and directed by Dax Shepard) and sci-fi/thriller feature The Titan starring Sam Worthington and Taylor Schilling. He also continues to serve as composer on Fox’s hit drama series Empire and Showtime’s Emmy-winning Shameless, as well as the critically lauded series UnReal. Eisler returns to the 2016 Sundance Film Festival with the documentary Newtown. He composed the main title theme and acted as music director for the documentary, assembling an all-star line up of over a dozen Hollywood composers who each donated a piece of music for the film. In 2008, Fil was among a select group of up-and-coming composers invited to the Sundance Film Composer’s Lab and in the years since, his projects have garnered critical acclaim on the film festival circuit and beyond. He returned to Sundance in 2011 with the Inupiaq-themed thriller On the Ice, scored the Sundance-backed documentary Whatever It Takes and Jonathan van Tulleken’s BAFTA nominated thriller Off Season. Fil was proud to win the Best Film Score Award for his work on Robbie Pickering’s Natural Selection at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival. The film was the most decorated of the festival, also winning the Grand Jury and Audience Awards. He continued his work with Pickering on the 2015 Sony feature Freaks of Nature. For four seasons, Eisler – a Czech-born, English-raised composer and multi-instrumentalist – transformed the ABC drama Revenge into a musically-driven show as composer and conductor. Eisler has been nominee and recipient of numerous awards including the World Soundtrack Awards New Discovery, SxSW Best Soundtrack Award and multiple BMI awards.

DEREK WIESEHAHN

Director of Photography

Recent credits include: Newtown (2018 Peabody nominated documentary)Music By Prudence (2010 Academy Award® documentary short), How To Survive A Plague (2013 Academy Award® nominated documentary feature), and God Loves Uganda (2014 Academy Award® shortlisted documentary feature) and was a camera operator on the 2011 Sundance winner, and Academy Award® nominated documentary, Restrepo.

PENELOPE FALK

Editor

Penelope Falk has been editing documentaries for the past 17 years. Her most recent film, “Recovery Boys”, will premier on Netflix in 2018. Other partial film credits include “Step” (winner of the 2017 Sundance Jury Prize for Inspirational Filmmaking), “Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds” (premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2016), “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” (which won her an Excellence in Editing award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival), “Maidentrip” (winner of the SXSW Audience Award), “The New Public” (winner of the Golden Cine Award), “Smile Til It Hurts” (premiered Slamdance Film Festival), “Toots” (premiered Tribeca Film Festival), “Stagedoor” (debuted at the New York Film Forum. Partial TV film credits include: “Marvin Hamlisch: What I Did For Love” (American Experience), “Election Day” (POV), “Unfinished Country” (Wide Angle), and “Afghan Stories” (the Sundance Channel).

K.A. Snyder Productions and Cuomo Cole Productions
in association with
Artemis Rising
and Transform Films

FULL CREDITS

DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY

Kim A. Snyder

PRODUCED BY

Maria Cuomo Cole

EDITOR

Penelope Falk

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Derek Wiesehahn

SUPERVISING COMPOSER AND MAIN THEME BY

Fil Eisler

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Regina K. Scully

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Jim and Susan Swartz

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Jamie Wolf

Mara Sandler

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Nick Stuart

Carolanne Dolan

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Geralyn Dreyfous

Kim Brizzolara

WITH THANKS FOR THE GENEROUS SUPPORT PROVIDED BY

Harvard Divinity School

THE PRODUCERS WISH TO THANK THE COMMUNITIES OF NEWTOWN AND DUNBLANE ALONG WITH THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS FOR THEIR TRUST AND PARTICIPATION:

Msgr. Robert Weiss

Msgr. Basil O’Sullivan

Dr. Bill Begg

Patricia Llodra

Dana-Holcombe House

Newtown Interfaith Clergy Association

St. Rose of Lima Church

Jamie Olvera and all at the Eastwood Scoring Stage, Warner Bros, CA 

Peter Rotter and crew  

Christine Russel, Seth Kaplan and all at Evolution Music Partners

MUSIC BY

Tyler Bates

Jeff Beal

George Clinton

Chris Drake

Chris Lennertz

Blake Neely

Rob Simonsen

CO-PRODUCER

Olivia Klaus

LINE PRODUCER

Michelle Budnick-Duque

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Adam Miller

POST PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

Cynthia Kane

POST PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Michelle Black

SECOND UNIT FIELD PRODUCERS

Anna Stypko

Katie Taber

SOUND RECORDING

Leslie Taylor

David Schumacher

Rob Garcia

Ethan Goldberger

Avi Weider

Jerry Stein

RE-RECORDING MIXER

Scott Weber

COLOR BY

RCO

COLORIST

Seth Ricart

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Ira Blanchard

Jonathan Abreu

ADDITIONAL CAMERA

Jake Clennell

Jennifer Cox

Niall Preston

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS

Ramirez Quintero

ARCHIVAL RESEARCHER

Amy Rockefeller

PRODUCTION COUNSEL

Law Offices of Marilyn G. Haft, P.C.

ADDITIONAL LEGAL SERVICES

Donaldson + Callif, LP

David Dreilinger Esq.

Law offices of Rosalind Lichter

WEB DEVELOPMENT

Orange Static

PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANTS

Puglisi, Moore & Co.

K.A. Trotter

TRANSCRIPTIONS

Transcript Divas

OFFICE AND EDIT SUITE

DuArt Film & Video

FISCAL SPONSORSHIP PROVIDED BY

Utah Film Center

ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE

Associated Press

Getty Images / CH 4 / ITN

STV

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS BY

The BBC

Fox News

RT / Ruptly

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

WFSB-TV 3

The White House

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