Production Credits
This program is a co-presentation with POV, Television With a Point of
View, and the Independent Television Service with major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. For information about POV, contact POV at 220 West 19th Street, Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10011 Tel : 212/ 989-8121, Fax: 212/989-8230, or visit the POV website.
This program is also a co-presentation with the National Black Programming
Consortium (NBPC).
A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL is a production of Third World Newsreel.
About the Filmmakers
Ada Gay Griffin is an African American activist working in electronic
media and film production. She has been executive director of Third
World Newsreel since 1988 and works to ensure a flourishing future for
producers of color in progressive media. She studied art, political
science and Black feminist writing at Hampshire College, where she
studied the works of Audre Lorde. Griffin is also developing Black in a Small Town, a documentary series that will explore issues of race
and class in semi-rural areas of the United States.
Michelle Parkerson is a writer and independent filmmaker from
Washington D.C. She has served on the faculties of Temple University,
the University of Delaware, Howard University and Northwestern
University. Her public television specials include But Then She's Betty Carter and Urban Odyssey. In 1992, she received a Rockefeller
Foundation Film/Video Fellowship. As a member of the American Film
Institute's Directing Workshop for Women (8th Cycle), she wrote and
directed Odds and Ends, a Black amazon science fiction short film.
CREDITS
Producer/Director: Ada Gay Griffin
Director: Michelle Parkerson
Editor: Holly Fisher