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A Good Man

A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones as he and his company create their most ambitious work, an original dance-theater piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s Bicentennial.

A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones (Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Still/Here, FELA!) as he and his company create their most ambitious work, an original dance-theater piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s Bicentennial. Through two tumultuous years, we witness raw moments of frustration as Jones struggles to communicate his vision to his dancers and collaborators, as well as moments of great exhilaration when movement transcends the limitation of words. Jones and his company come face to face with America’s unresolved contradictions about race, equality and the legacy of our 16th President. Initially an indictment of The Great Emancipator, the work evolves into a triumph of hope for our struggling democracy, with Jones revealing that Lincoln was “the only white man I was allowed to love unconditionally.” Premiering on the heels of Jones’s Tony Award for FELA! and 2010 Kennedy Center Honor, A Good Man is a window into the creative process and, indeed, the creative crisis of one of our nation’s most enduring, provocative artists as he explores what it means to be a good man, to be a free man, to be a citizen.

A Good Man is a co-production of Kartemquin Films, AMERICAN MASTERS, Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Media Process Group, in association with Ravinia Festival.

View videos, interviews and background materials on the Bill T. Jones: A Good Man American Masters website.

Filmmakers

Executive Producer

Susan Lacy

Series Producer

Prudence Glass

Editor

David E. Simpson

Director of Photography

Keith Walker

Supervising Producer

Julie Sacks

Associate Producer

Rachel Pikelny

Production Supervisor

Junko Tsunashima

Series Production Manager

Jane Buckwalter

Camera

Gordon Quinn

Location Sound Recording

John Mathie
Daniel Brooks
Judy Karp

Additional Camera

Jim Morrissette
Mike Swanson
Dana Kupper

Additional Sound

Richard K. Pooler
Ben Clore
Zak Piper
David Schumacher

Assistant Editors

Nora Gully
Liz Kaar
Sharon Szalkowski

Technical Supervisor & Online Editor

Jim Morrissette

Audio Mix

Mark Bandy

Title & Graphics

Dizzy Giant

Executive Director (Kartemquin)

Justine Nagan

Production Support (Kartemquin)

Yvonne Afable
Jacinta Banks
Jerry Blumenthal
Nora Gully
Tim Horsburgh
Liz Kaar
Jim Morrissette
Kelley Moseley
Elizabeth Neufeld
Zak Piper
Dinesh Sabu
Leslie Simmer

Production Manager (Media Process Group)

Lisa Pooler

Bookkeeping

Yvonne Afable
Mia Capodilupo
Cate Ryan

Legal

Robert Labate
Jennifer Bjornberg
Peter Jaszi
Elisa Westapher

Transcription

Ethan Barnowsky
Holly Butz
Kate Donalek
John Kostka
Matt Lauterbach
Joe Riina-Ferrie
Rebecca Parrish
Robby Sexton
Emily Thomas
Jenny Wells
Adora Wilson-Eye

Produced with the cooperation of Ravinia Festival

Welz Kauffman (CEO & President)

Series Theme Music Composer

Thomas Wagner

Series Title Designer

B. T. Whitehill

Music Services

Rosie Fishel
Emily Lee

Business Affairs

Odell Nails

Series Publicist

WNET’s Communications Group

Interns/Production Assistants

Ethan Barnowsky
Jessy Bradish
Sarah Brafman
Holly Butz
Betsy Cass
Ranjani Chakraborty
Kate Donalek
LaToya Flowers
Michael Foley
Nick Fraccaro
Kevin Fullam
Lauren Goldenberg
Brett Hanover
Ian Robertson Kibbe
John Kostka
Matt Lauterbach
Lauren Makholm
Aaron McGrath
Eman Nader
Aubyn Niemi

Nick Nummerdor
Lesley Onstott
Rebecca Parrish
Allison Pichert
Joe Riina-Ferrie
Hannah Roodman
Dinesh Sabu
Robby Sexton
Ayesha Siddiqi
Philister Sidigu
Tristan Steinfeld
Emily Thomas
Lindsey Turner
Stanzi Vaubel
Aziza Ngozi Walker
Jenny Wells
Cassie Wierenga
Adora Wilson-Eye
Shuling Yong

Media

Awards and Distinctions

Southern Circuit Tour

Official Selection

2012

American Dance Festival International Screendance Festival

Official Selection

2011

Doxa Documentary Festival (Canada)

Official Selection

Canadian Premiere

2011

EPOS International Art Film Festival

Official Selection

2011

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Official Selection

World Premiere

2011

Minneapolist/St.Paul International Film Festival

Official Selection

2011

SILVERDOCS Documentary Film Festival

Official Selection

2011

Ventura Film Festival

Distinction

Honorable Mention

2011

Virginia Film Festival

Official Selection

2011

Woods Hole Film Festival

Distinction

Honorable Mention

2011