Production Team
Lydia Nibley of Riding The Tiger Productions is the director, co-producer, and co-writer of TWO SPIRITS, which has screened in over 80 film festivals around the world and aired on the CBC in Canada and NITV in Australia. TWO SPIRITS aired on PBS—Independent Lens and received the Audience Award, as well as breaking all records for audience engagement online. The American Library Association named TWO SPIRITS one of the most outstanding films of the past two years. It was also screened at the Obama White House and honored as part of a reception hosted by the president. The Creative Visions Foundation has named Lydia as one of their Creative Activists—someone who skillfully uses media and the arts to raise awareness about the world’s most critical issues and whose projects are igniting lasting social change. She has written, directed, and produced award-winning films, television programs, and books. She is currently directing and producing a feature film titled IN HER HONOR.
Russell Martin is one of the film’s producers and is the co-writer. He is an internationally published author of two critically acclaimed novels as well as many nonfiction books. His book Beethoven’s Hair, a United States bestseller and a Washington Post Book of the Year, has been published in twenty-one translated editions and is the subject of a Gemini-award-winning film of the same name. At Say Yes Quickly Productions, he recently directed and produced the award-winning documentary film Beautiful Faces.”
Henry Ansbacher is an executive producer of TWO SPIRITS and the executive director of Just Media. His films American Mustang and Iron Ladies of Liberia have been broadcast around the world, and his film They Killed Sister Dorothy aired on HBO and won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the South by Southwest Film Festival and was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination in 2008. His film The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner was nominated for an Academy Award in 2009.
Editor Darrin Navarro edited Bug for famed director William Friedkin, and the film received the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. He produced and edited the documentary film The Painter’s Voice, also directed by William Friedkin, as well as the feature films Terri, Grace, Momma’s Man, Hate Crime, the series Mozart in the Jungle, and numerous other shorts, documentaries, and features.
David A. Armstrong, TWO SPIRITS’ director of photography, began his career in documentary film and has since served as the principal cinematographer for more than a dozen feature films, including the films in the Saw horror series. He has also shot numerous television productions including Crime & Punishment.
Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer Ron Eng’s credits include Longmire, Twin Peaks, Coraline, Lakeview Terrace, Darfur Now, Bug, Vanilla Sky, Mulholland Drive, Independence Day, and Return to Neverland, among many other films.
Associate Producers
PEGGY ENSIGN
JEN RAININ
Associate Producers
TERRI KRUG
PATRICK STERNBERG
Written by
RUSSELL MARTIN
LYDIA NIBLEY
Additional Photography
ADAM HONZL
SCOTT RANSOM
Original Still Photography by
KRISSIE GREGORY
Map Animation by
RUSSELL CALABRESE
Sound Designer & Re-recording Mixer
RONALD ENG
Sound Editor
ROBERT TROY
Production Sound Recordists
KEVIN BOWE
PAUL GRAFF
RYAN THOMPSON
RON KANTER
Post-Production Sound Services Provided by
SAMMY SOUND
ADR Recordists
SAM ARONSON
ERICK MEANY
Post-Production Supervisor
DARRIN NAVARRO
Production Manager
JOHN PETERS-CAMPBELL
Production Accountant
MICHAEL DONNER
Production Assistants
JEWELL ARCOREN
TIM WILSON
Research Assistant
OLIVIA KANZ
Makeup Department Head
NIKKI CARBONETTA
Makeup Artist
AMBER LONDON
As Themselves, In Order of Appearance
PAULA MITCHELL
JOHN PETERS-CAMPBELL
ALBERT MCLEOD
JOHN PARKER
L. FRANK
JUANTIO BECENTI
WESLEY THOMAS
RICHARD LAFORTUNE – Richard is a delegate to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
MARK THOMPSON
CATHY RENNA
TRAVIS GOLDTOOTH
GAIL BINKLY
Cast
Fred Martinez, Jr. CRAIG BENALLY
Shaun Murphy SAMUEL PARGA
Boys Looking for Lizards
CARTER HALNIER
MALACHI CHURCH
Original Music
JUANTIO BECENTI
ANTHONY WAKEMAN & MR. SOON
DAVID REYES
Additional Music by
PATTI SMITH
THE BEAUTIFUL LOSERS SOCIETY
THE HOLY SMOKERS
MANDY HOFFMAN
LEE HARRIS
CANYON RECORDS
Provided Music by the Following Native Artists
ANTHONY WAKEMAN
MR. SOON
CLAN/DESTINE
VERDELL PRIMEAUX
JOHNNY MIKE
ROBERT ATTSON
SKYCHASERS
RADMILLA CODY
LOUIE GONNIE
Footage and Images Courtesy of
THE FAMILY OF FRED MARTINEZ, JR.
ANNABELLE JANSSEN
BRIAN GLEASON
JUANTIO BECENTI
ALBERT MCLEOD
DR. JAMES S. BRUST
ARTBEATS
DAVID BOWYER PRODUCTIONS
ECHO FILMS
DAVID FORTNEY
CORTEZ JOURNAL
THE DURANGO HERALD
CUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHIVES, SMITHSONIAN
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ARTS & CULTURE
OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS, NEW MEXICO
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
WHYTE MUSEUM
Production and Creative Advertising Services Provided by
ALPHADOGS and
TOY BOX ENTERTAINMENT
Supervising Producer
RUSSELL HARNDEN III
Editors
VICE ASTA
BRANDON FLOYD
JONATHAN RICE
Additional Editing
CARL ALFARO