Edward Gray, Producer-Director
Ed Gray has won three Emmys, two Writers Guild of America awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. His documentaries have aired on PBS, ABC, Discovery, and Showtime. For PBS, Ed wrote and directed Security vs. Liberty, and three episodes of the history series American Experience. His most recent national broadcast was Secrets In Our DNA for the PBS science series NOVA.
Libby Kreutz, Co-Producer
Libby Kreutz has supervised archival research on dozens of documentary films. They include Being Mary Tyler Moore for HBO, which was named the Best Archival Documentary at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards and was also an Emmy nominee; Amend: The Fight for America, a six-part series for Netflix; Invisible Killers, a three-part series for Discovery; The Age of Aerospace, an eight-part series for the Science Channel; the feature documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story; and The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib for HBO.
Jason Longo, Director of Photography
Jason Longo is an Emmy Award-winning cinematographer who has photographed over 100 documentary films in more than 60 countries. He is a frequent contributor to the PBS series Frontline, NOVA, American Experience, American Masters, and Finding Your Roots.
Keith Walker, Director of Photography
Keith Walker has shot hundreds of broadcast segments for shows like “60 Minutes,” “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” “Dateline,” and “HBO Real Sports,” as well as documentaries including “Good Trouble: The Story of John Lewis” (CNN Films), “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” (Sundance premiere and PBS broadcast), and “Mavis!” (the Mavis Staples story, HBO).
Eddie Marritz, Director of Photography
Eddie Marritz shot the Oscar-winning documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. His other credits include, for HBO, Spielberg and Jane Fonda in Five Acts; the feature documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness; and Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable for PBS.
Christian Appy, Advisor
Christian Appy is one of America’s leading historians of the Vietnam War. He is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts and the Director of the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy. His books about the Vietnam War include Working Class War; Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides; and American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity.
David Cortright, Advisor
David Cortright enlisted in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and helped to organize G.I. resistance to the war. Today, at the University of Notre Dame, he is a scholar of peace studies and nonviolent social change. David is the director of the Global Policy Initiative and professor emeritus at the Keough School of Global Affairs. He is the author or co-editor of 19 books, including Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War, and Waging Peace in Vietnam.
Ashley Farmer, Advisor
Ashley Farmer is a historian of black women's history, intellectual history, and radical politics. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era is the first comprehensive study of black women's intellectual production and activism in the Black Power era. She is also the co-editor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition.
Andrew Hunt, Advisor
Andrew Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. He is the author of The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the most detailed account of the story of VVAW. Andrew’s other books include Beatlemania in America; We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes: Cold War Culture Wars in the Age of Reagan; and David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary. He has also written three novels.
Elise Lemire, Advisor
Elise Lemire is Professor of Literature at Purchase College, SUNY. A specialist on race and memory in the United States, she is the author most recently of Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston, a detailed account of the VVAW action “Operation POW.” Her other books include Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts.
Robyn Spencer-Antoine, Advisor
Robyn Spencer-Antoine is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her work focuses on Black social protest after World War II, urban and working-class radicalism, and gender. She is the author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland. She is currently at work on a new book about Black protest against the Vietnam War.
Heather Marie Stur, Advisor
Heather Marie Stur is Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. An internationally recognized expert on the Vietnam War, she has studied and taught in Vietnam at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City. Her research focuses on gender and war, U.S. foreign relations and post-1945 America. She is the author of Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties and Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era.