The Crew of Bitter Seeds

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This page is still under construction.  Below is the credit list; crew bios are coming soon.

DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER  Micha X. Peled
CAMERA  Devendra Golatkar
EDITOR  Leonard Feinstein
MUSIC  Frank Illman
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER  Prachi Bari
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR  Shyam Dharmadhikari
SOUND  Kaamod Kharade
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR  Anand Pande

The film benefited from the advice and encouragement of the following experts:
John Adamczyk, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. government
Prof. Miguel Altieri, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Environ. Science, Policy and Mgt.
Dr. Doug Gurian-Sherman, Union of Concerned Scientists
Prof. Andrew Paul Gittierez, UC Berkeley, Div. of Ecosystem Science
Dr. Angelica Hellbeck, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland and Genoek Centre for Biosafety, Tromsoe, Norway
Dr. Hans Herren, Millenium Institute, Washington D.C.
M.A. Qayum, former Joint Director, Dept. of Agri., State of Andhra Pradesh, India
Michael Pollan, UC Berkeley, School of Journalism
Dr. Bruce Tabachnik, University of Arizona
Emily Waltz, Writer, Nature Biotechnology
OTHER INDEPENDENT AND GOVERNMENT EXPERTS ASKED NOT TO BE NAMED

ASSOCIATE EDITOR  Molly Snyder-Fink
ADDITIONAL EDITING  Micha X. Peled
ASSISTANT EDITORS  Brendan Aanes, Rose Haag
ADDITIONAL CAMERA  Ranu Ghosh, Anand Pande, Micha X. Peled, Gurmeet Sapal
ADDITIONAL SOUND  Anand Pande, Kevin Pinto, Dara Singh
MONSANTO INTERVIEW  Al Reyes
RESEARCH  Dianne de Guzman, Heather Duthie, Rose Haag, Julie Pretzlaff, Alexandra Simmons, Molly Snyder-Fink, Ben Strobridge
TRANSLATION  Vaishali Ranade
ADDITIONAL TRANSLATION  Anand Bhandwalkar, Vrushalee
TRANSLATION CONSULTANT  Rupesh Tatiya
TRANSCRIPTION  Tessa Berman, Hilary Hesse, Amanda Howell
LEGAL  Richard Idell, Idell and Seitel, LLP law firm
STILL PHOTOGRAPHY  Shaul Vitis, Anand Pande
TITLE DESIGN  Dave Murray
POSTER DESIGN  John Mattos
ON-LINE  Jesse Spencer
HD MASTERING  Video ARTS, Inc.
SOUND MIX  Berkeley Sound Artists: James Lebrecht, Patti Tauscher, Dan Olmsted, Jamie Branquinho, Chase Keehn
MUSICIANS: Adil Adhiraj – Bansuri Flute, Herman Witkam – Bansuri Flute, Atraiu – Percussion, Jane Bird – Viola, Garry Lynn – Cellos, Malvin Bahaar – Sitar and Sarod, Gregg Miller – Guitars, Bass
VOCALS  Sandhya Sanjana, Adarsh
SCORE PRODUCTION  Frank Ilfman
ORCHESTRATION  Hayim Adelmo, Frank Ilfman
RECORDING AND MIXING  Guy Landau, Soho Room & Papa Legba Studios, London
ADMINISTRATION  Dianne de Guzman, Andie Sobrepeña

SPECIAL THANKS
Arun Chandra, Chetna
Ram Kalaspurkar, Vidarbha Organic Farmers Assoc.
Dr. Macia Ishii-Eiteman, PAANA
Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute
Rahul Bidhe
Nica Smith
DDS Community Media Trust,Pastapur, Medak District, Andrhra Pradesh

THANKS
Rimmi Harindran, Monsanto India; Periyapatna Satheesh, Deccan Development Society; Brian Tokar, Institute for Social Ecology; Rahul Antao; Renata Brillinger; Prof. Ignacio Chapala; Maxine Cohen; Miriam Cutler; Elizabeth Farnsworth; Michael Fox; Larry Hott; Anant Joglekar; John Krich; Lisa Leeman; Irene Lin; John Morrison; Marilyn Mulford; Richard O’Connell; Shyam Pandharipande; Julie Pretzlaff; Kieran Ridge; Jeff Savage; Ken Schneider; Lawrence Shore; Jorge Torres; Patrick Woodall

FUNDING PROVIDED BY  Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, Columbia Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, Funding Exchange, Park Foundation
Executive Producer for ITVS- Sally Jo Fifer