written and directed by
Irene Lilienheim Angelico
and
Abbey Jack Neidik

produced by
Abbey Jack Neidik
and
Irene Lilienheim Angelico

executive producers
Paul Cadieux
Michael Levine

executive producer, TVO
Jane Jankovic

independent production officer, TVO
Linda Fong

camera
Abbey Jack Neidik

sound
Toben Neidik

edited by
Howard Goldberg
Martin Nault
Irene Lilienheim Angelico
Abbey Jack Neidik

original music
Philippe Dionne

research
Irene Lilienheim Angelico

archive producer
Terri Foxman

additional archive research
Holly Dressel

post-production
DLI Productions
Productions St-Antoine

sound editing
Martin Cadieux-Rouillard

mix
Gordon Neil Allen

colour correction and online editing
Philippe Carbonneau

assistant-editor
Frédéric Bernard

titles
Louis-Gabriel Pothier

quality control and DCP supervisor
Isabelle Stephen

closed captioning
Anne-Émanuelle Romanelli

technical director
Simon Legault Beaudoin

post-production supervisor
Isabelle Bouchard

technical support
Patrick Clune

transcript
Sassonique Productions

graffiti artist
Toben Neidik

archives
Alamy
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
American Jewish Historical Society
Amnesty International
Amnesty International Norway
AP Archive
Bald and Bankrupt
BBC News
BStU (Stasi)
CBC Archive Sales
CBC News
Canadian Press Images
Centre de Ressources des Entreprises et les droits de l’Homme
City Beautiful
Critical Past
C-Span
CTV News/Bell Media Inc
Deutsche Welle (DW)
The Diplomat
Dramatic Videos
Ethnomusicology Explained!
Eureporter
Euro News
ExMuslim Rights
F.I.L.M. Archives
Jamison Firestone
Kylie Flavell
Footage Berlin – rbb media
Footage Farm
Freedom House
Photo © by Alexander Frenkel
Getty Images
Hengameh Golestan, Untitled (Witness ‘79 series), March 1979, Tehran
The Guardian
Ensaf Haidar, personal collection
House of Commons, Canada
Human Rights Network
Idea City, MZTV Production & Distribution
International Observatory of Human Rights (IOHR)
IStock by Getty Images
Robert H. Jackson Center
Jewish Agency for Israel
Howard Kay, CJC photo collection, Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
Kostack Studio
Kremlin
Montreal Gazette
MsMaskit
My Stealthy Freedom
National Archives and Records Service of South Africa
Nelson Mandela Foundation, photographer unknown
National Post
Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Oslo Freedom Forum
Ottawa Citizen
Gerald Praschl
Picture Alliance
Pond5
Radio-Canada
Ruptly
Samin
Screenocean/Reuters
Shaparak Shajarizadeh, personal collection
© Alix Kates Shulman, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
UN TV
Vancouver Sun
Vice News
Wall Street Journal
WPA Film Library

additional music
Stand Up
written and performed by Isobel Cameron
composed by Philippe Dionnne
additional violin Kiarra Saito-Beckman
additional cello Matthew Fields
assistant recording engineer Santiago Garcia-Quevas

I Shall Be Released
performance by Joan Baez
written and composed by Bob Dylan
published by Dwarf Music

Freedom
performed by Pharrell Williams
written and composed by Vincent Brown, Anthony Criss, Keir Gist
and Pharrell Williams
published by EMI Pop Music Publishing, More Water from Nazareth, Wb Music Corp. and Naughty Music
courtesy of Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment (Canada)

Artlist

music copyright clearance
Josée-Anne Tremblay, laNégo

accounting
Gerry Vininsky
Weisbord, Del Gaudio, Iacono

production accountant
George Highfield
Marco Vitullo

legal services
Remy Khouzam
Lussier & Khouzam Entertainment

insurance
Globalex
member of Front Row Insurance Brokers

travel services
Always Travel

the producers wish to thank
Montreal Centre for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University
Jewish Agency of Israel
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Canadian Parliament Buildings
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
Hermitage Capital Management
European Union
United States Capitol Complex
International Bar Association
Crowne Plaza
Tel Aviv University
Montreal Science Centre
Maurie Alioff • Luc Côté • Barbara Falk • Jen Herszman Caprau • Felix von Geyer • Randall Kempf • Greg Klymkiw • Terre Nash • Jan Rofekamp • Patricia Scarlett • Shelley Tepperman

and a very special thanks to all our participants
Irwin Cotler
Anatoly Sharansky
Shaparak Shajarizadeh
Ensaf Haidar
Bill Browder
Amal Clooney
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Dikgang Moseneke
James P. McGovern
Masih Alinejad
Romeo Dallaire
Ester Mujawayo
Brandon Silver
Judith Abitan
Nirushaa Senthilnathan
Yonah Diamond
Jeremy Assaly
Zoe Gladstone
Barbad and Alireza Shajarizadeh
Avital Sharansky
Raif Badawi
Miriyam, Najwa, and Terad Badawi
High-Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom
Peter Kent
Garnett Genuis
Guy Caron
Ketty Niviyabandi
Yves Boivert
Christopher Hernandez-Roy
Kyle Matthews
Payam Akhavan
the Libérez Raif Demonstrators in Sherbrooke, Quebec
the Cotler family – Ariela, Michal, Gila, Tanya, and Jonathan
and
Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights

produced with the participation of
Canada Media Fund
Quebec Tax Credit
Canada Tax Credit

produced in association with

TVO Media Education
VP programming and content
John Ferri

for Michael Lilienheim

a production by

DLI Productions

www.firsttostand.com

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