The Broken Promise
Gayle Donsky, Executive Producer
In 2018, Gayle Donsky produced the short documentary Faces of Genocide after spending 15 years advocating for human rights. Faces of Genocide received an Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking award at the Newport Beach Film Festival in 2019. Gayle is a retired social worker who has worked in adoptions, foster care, a pediatric outpatient clinic and in private psychotherapy practice. Working in public settings with children, she saw first-hand the devastating effects that dysfunctional institutions and governments have on innocent children and families. Since retirement she has been active in multiple social justice issues, including the anti-genocide movement. She organized Bay Area events and “The Judgment on Genocide: An International Citizens’ Tribunal for Sudan,” which took place in New York. She was a recipient of the Jewish Community Relations Council’s Honorable Tom Lantos Memorial Award for Unsung Heroes.
Kurt Norton, Director
After a successful career working as a licensed Private Investigator specializing in death penalty cases, Kurt Norton switched paths to focus on documentary filmmaking as part of Gravitas Docufilms. He co-directed and co-produced These Amazing Shadows in 2011, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, picked up distribution through IFC, and had multiple broadcasts on the PBS series Independent Lens; produced Being George Clooney, a lively look into the world of the audio dubbing of Hollywood movies for the international market (2016 –Netflix Worldwide); co-produced The Deep Sky (2017) a narrative feature, The S Word (2017) a moving documentary about suicide survivors, and co-directed Faces of Genocide, a documentary short subject (2018) that won an outstanding short subject award at the Newport Beach Film Festival. He is currently directing a documentary about climate change.
Credits
Executive produced by Gayle Donsky
Directed by Kurt Norton, Gravitas Docufilms
Written by Alex Calleros, Gayle Donsky and Kurt Norton
Edited by Alex Calleros and Daniel J. Clark
Director of Photography Frazer Bradshaw
Very Special Thanks
Morton Stein
production kibitzer
Diane Sampson
creative adviser
Interviews (in alphabetical order)
Nahid Abunama-Elgadi
Amber Aguirre
Dr. M. Alfiee Breland-Noble
Todd Buchwald
Mohamed I. Elgadi
Helen Farkas
Ira Forman
Naomi Kikoler
K. Alexa Koenig
Paul Mason
Elisa Massimino
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern
Buffie Schmidt
Patricia Viseur Sellers
U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi
Nury Turkel
Mihrigul Turson
U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman
Additional Photography
Tony Day
Matthew Caulk
Jeff Schmale
Negin Khazaee
Randy Graham
Additional Crew
Dwayne Dell, sound recording
Daniel J. Clark, post production supervisor
Frazier Bradshaw, color grading
Daniel J. Clark, sound editor & re-recording mixer
Matt Radecki, Different By Design, post production consultant
Steve Henderson, camera department
Chris Perez, Donald Callif Perez, LLP, clearance counsel
Ahmad Neo, Digital Hand Art, illustrations
Design Camp, motion graphics
Morton Stein and Patrick Ejelle-Ndille, production stills
Truman Van Dyke, production insurance
David Emanuel, public relations
Elise Anderson and
Zubayra Shamseden, translations
Karen Newton,
Rapid Translation Services, transcriptions
Scott Bretner, transportation
Special Thanks
Beth Van Schaack
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Human Rights Center, Berkeley,
California
United States House of
Representatives
Georgetown University Law Center
The United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
AAKOMA Project
Uyghur Human Rights Project
Yad Veshem, The World Holocaust
Remembrance Center
Beth Jacob, Congregation
Kitchener-Waterloo
Ready Pictures
Theogene Rudasingwa
Haider Elias
Ramajana Hidic Demirovic
Elise Hagopian Taft family
Chivy Sok
Steven Norris
Andrew Hollinger
Jennifer Schmidt
Dr. Fabiana Franco
Eleanor Taylor
Kailei Jewell Ritcheson
Matt Bonaccorsi
Samantha Rucobo
Sydney Harvey
Mike Shanahan
Candice Nicole
Heidi Somers
Audree Norton
Pete Marino
Shane Zhang
Heidi Cuda
Tara Dao
Gerry Miller
Sandy Bulman
Alexi Berlind
Jeremy Russell
Ethel Sinofski
Joanne Donsky
Stuart Oremland
Steve Gutow
Robin O'heeron
Suzan Bernes
Nina Snegg
David Escobar
The Gotham Film & Media Institute