Produced and Directed by
Judy Lieff
Co-Producer for City Lore
Steve Zeitlin
Editor
Keiko Deguchi
Sound Designer and Recording Mixer
Tom Paul
Sound Editors
Paul Berkovitch
Alicia Hook
Directors of Photography
Melissa Donovan
Claudia Raschke Robinson
Associate Producer
Liz Wolter
Featured ASL Poet
Aneta Brodski
Teen Poets
Semion Abayev
Danny Biland
Robert Haughton
John Horacio
Amanda Gonzalez
Hinda Kasher
Joshua Masas
Kenneth Montanez
Aron Moses
Wanda Nivol
Tremaine Parkinson
Iram Shezadi
Mike Wagner
Brandon Williams
Shiran Agin-Zhavian
Urban Word Poets
Roxy Azari
Albe Back
Amanda Diva
Future
Ellison Glenn
Sciryl
Kesed Ragin
Additional Participants
Jason Norman
Lauren Ridloff
Art Director - Titles and Graphics
Scott Kawczynski
Opening Title Animation
Cassidy Gearhart
Animation
Vidlit Productions
Motion Graphics
Max Ralston
Production Sound Engineers
Kristian Borysevicz
Judy Karp
John Sember
Additional Editing
Dena Mermelstein
Judy Lieff
Additional Camera
Mia Barker
Marcus Burnett
Nick Doob
Alan Hostetter
Linda Lewett
Judy Lieff
Martina Radwan
Charlie Steiner
Assistant Editors
Lauren Rosen
Jennifer Hanna
Ricardo Springer
Production Assistants
Cat Gulacsy
Hannah Carpenter
On-line Editor
Jacek Kropinski
On-line Facility
Post Brooklyn
Percussionist
Michael Wimberly
Original Music
Ian Miller
Music Supervisor
Frank Palazzo
Sound Mix Facility
Gigantic Studios
Still Photographers
Martha Cooper
Brian Geltner
ASL Translation
Jeremy Sanchez
ASL Interpreters
Veronica Staehle
Mia Pennywell
Aviva Benshrit
Candace Davider
Jennifer Kagan
Rick Rubin
Project Consultants
H. Dirksen Bauman
Lori Cheatle
JoAnn Dean
Bob Holman
Terrylene Sacchetti
Story Consultants
Jennifer Fox
Toby Shimin
Legal
Gray Krauss Des Rochers LLP
Archival Photos and Footage
American School for the Deaf Museum
Clarke School for the Deaf
Gallaudet University Archives
Maryland School for the Deaf
The National Archives
Rochester Institute of Technology
Richard Schoenberg
Music
"Broken Vibes"
Written and Performed by
Taylor McFerrin and Vincent Parker
"Anarrie"
Written and performed by
Cyro Baptista
By arrangement with "A" Side Music
"Diabate"™
Written and performed by
Vieux Farka Toure
(featuring Toumani Diabate)
Licensed courtesy of Domino
Publishing Limited (PRS)
"Kwanza"
Written by Brian Marsella
Performed by Cyro Baptista
By arrangement with "A" Side Music
"Brooklyn"
Written by Nate McIntosh
Performed by Youngblood Brass Band
Published by Layered Music
"Lamento Mourisco"
Written by Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz
Performed by Cyro Baptista
By arrangement with "A" Side Music
"Rock to It"
Written by Shadrach Kango
Performed by Shad
Published by Shadrach Kango
"Rio de Jakarta"
Written and performed by
Cyro Baptista
By arrangement with "A" Side Music
"Diallo"
Written and performed by
Vieux Farka Toure
(featuring Ali Farka Toure)
Licensed courtesy of Domino
Publishing Limited (PRS)
"Tap on the Cajon"
Written and performed by
Cyro Baptista
By arrangement with "A" Side Music
"O Canto Da Ema"
Written by
Alventino Cavalcante de Souza,
Ayres Vianna, and Joao Batista Vale
Performed by Cyro Baptista
By Arrangement with Fermata
International Melodies, Inc.
"Mumakata"
Written by Collin Wolcott
Performed by Cyro Baptista &
Banquet of the Spirits
"God Didn't Make No Walmart"
Written by Cyro Baptista and Kevin Joseph Breit
Performed by Cyro Baptista
By arrangement with “A” Side Music
Special Thanks
Eleonora Alberto
Jean Bergey
The Brodski Family
Gina Carroll
Debra Cohen
Felix Endara
Penelope Falk
Marina Gonzalez
Danny Kapilian
Michael Levine
Miriam Lerner
Lexington School for the Deaf
Brian Miller
Modiba Productions
Jane Moran
Becky Simmons
Jennifer Shufro
Benh Zeitlin
Fiscal Sponsors
City Lore
Bowery Arts and Science
The New York Foundation for the Arts
Urban World NYC
Funding for This Program Was Provided by
National Endowment for the Arts
The Rockefeller Foundation
The New York State Council on the Arts
Joanne Nerenberg
Howard Jackson
Nowell Karten
Richard Weber
Executive Producer for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer
Deaf Jam is a co-production of Made-By-Hand, LLC
and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding provided by
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
Deaf Jam is produced by Made-By-Hand, LLC,
who is solely responsible for its content.
© 2011 Made-By-Hand, LLC. All rights reserved.