No Straight Lines

Credits

Dedicated to the gentle vision  and boundless creativity of Howard Cruse (1943-2019)

PRODUCTION
Director & Producer

Vivian Kleiman

Producer & Principal Consultant

Justin Hall

Featuring

Alison Bechdel
Jennifer Camper
Howard Cruse
Rupert Kinnard
Mary Wings

Editors

Christiane Badgley
Linda Peckham

Also Featuring

Alex Combs
Dylan Edwards
Nicole Georges
Sina Grace
Emeric Kennard
Denis Kitchen
Maia Kobabe
Lawrence Lindell
Ajuan Mance
MariNaomi
Breena Nuñez
Carlo Quispe
Meggie Ramm
Taneka Stotts
Anand Vedawala
Ivan Velez, Jr.
Gaia Wxyz

Executive Producers

Ellen M. Poss
Gerald Herman
Cort Lane
Greg Sirota

Director of Photography

Andrew Black

Original Music

René-Marc Bini
Editions: Altynaï

Art Director & Animator

Suzanne Slatcher

Associate Producer

Cassandra Dreher

Location Sound

Judy Karp
Dan Mazur
Lauretta Molitor
Anna Rieke
Andy Turett

Production Coordinators

Kat Renée Cole
Jennifer Petrucelli
Lauren Kawana

Production Assistants

Kevin Chap
Samuel Isaias
Sandy Melara
Sandra Thomas
Kayla Velloso

Still Photographer

Kim Wetzel

 
POST PRODUCTION
Artwork by

Ajuan Mance
Akshay Varaham
Alex L. Combs
Alex Woolfson
Alison Bechdel
Anand Vedawala
Andrea Natalie
Anthony Gonzalez
Art Spiegelman
Beowulf Thorne
Breena Nuñez
Bishakh Som
Burton Clarke
Carl Vaughn Frick
Carlo Quispe
Charles Ortlieb
Chelsey Furedi
Chrystin Garland
Christine Smith
Chuck McKinney
Craig Bostick
Dale Messick
David Wojnarowicz
Denis Kitchen
Diane DiMassa
Donelan
Dylan Edwards
Ed Luce
Edie Fake
Emeric Kennard
Emil Ferris
Eric Orner
Gaia Wxyz
Gary Scott Beatty
Gilbert Shelton
Howard Cruse
Ivan Velez, Jr.
Jack Kirby
James Romberger
Jennifer Camper
Jerry Mills
Joan Hilty
Joe Johnson
John Callahan
Judd Winick
Justin Hall
Karen Platt
Kate Leth
Kris Kovick
Lawrence Lindell
Leanne Franson
Lee Marrs
Leslie Ewing
Levi Hastings
Maia Kobabe

Marguerite Van Cook
MariNaomi
Mario Cesar
Martin Ramos (Chino)
Mary Wings
Meggie Ramm
Melanie Gillman
Michelle Gruben
Mike Funk
Milton Caniff
MK Czerwiec
Nicole Georges
Noelle Stevenson
Paige Braddock
Ria Martinez
Richard Sciala
Robert Crumb
Robert Kirby
Robert Triptow
Roberta Gregory
Rupert Kinnard
S. Clay Wilson
Sina Grace
Spain Rodriguez
Steve MacIsaac
Taneka Stotts
Theo van den Boogaard
Tom of Finland
Trina Robbins
Victor Moscone
William Stout

Post Production Supervisor

Cassandra Dreher

Additional Editors

Keith Wilson
Greg Sirota

Assistant Editor

Hilary Brashear

Archival Research

Lauren Kawana
Jennifer Petrucelli

Motion Graphics

Chris Hawkinson
Yssa Badiola

Graphic Design

Barbara Oplinger

Sound Stage

The Producer’s Loft Studio – SF

Color Grading

Robert Arnold, Lateral Films

 
Post-Production Sound Services
Skywalker Sound a Lucasfilm Ltd. Company
Marin County, California

Sound Editor and Re-Recording Mixer

Brandon Proctor

Engineering Services

Scott Levine

Digital Editorial Support

David Peifer

Post-Production Sound Accountant

Colleen Birmingham

Post-Production Finance Manager

Mike Peters

Client Services

Eva Porter

Scheduling

Carrie Perry

Head of Engineering

Steve Morris

Head of Production

John Null

Transcribers

Eli Bishop
Meggie Ramm

Social Media Consultants

Charles “Zan” Christensen
Amie Simon, Smarthouse Creative

Advisors

Hillary Chute, PhD
Ramzi Fawaz, PhD

Consulting Producers

Vicky Funari
Jason Cohn
Jenni Olson

Contributing Producers

Abe Rybeck
Abby Ginzburg
Tracy Gary

 
MAJOR FUNDERS
Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
Dobkin Family Foundation
Robert Holgate, Fund of the Horizons Foundation
Jayne Baron Sherman
Susan Bernstein
Williams & Hart Rainbow, Fund of the Horizons Foundation
California Humanities
The San Francisco Foundation
Berkeley FILM Foundation
Weston Milliken
Additional Funders

Marcy Adelman
Frameline Completion Fund
Hannah Kranzberg
Christopher Nash
Margaret Miller
Bryan Correaberger
Keith Marran
Eleanor Friedman
Jasper Lawson & Jay Landers

 
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Very Special Thanks

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Christopher Nash
Eddie Sedarbaum

 
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In memory of Kim Wetzel

Who was taken by the coronavirus (Sept 1969 – March 2020)

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Based on an original film idea by

Justin Hall, Greg Sirota, and Dan Zeitman, inspired by Justin Hall’s book No Straight Lines

 
 

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