Co-Director Maren Grainger-Monsen is a physician, filmmaker-in-residence at Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics and director of the Program of Bioethics and Film. She directed Worlds Apart and Hold Your Breath, a large-scale project on cross-cultural conflicts in medicine currently used in 63% of US medical schools.  She also directed The Vanishing Line, on end of life issues, which aired on the Emmy award winning national PBS POV series, and Grave Words, which won first place in the AMA film festival.  She studied film at the London International Film School and received her medical training at the University of Washington and Stanford University. 

Co-Director Nicole Newnham is a writer and filmmaker-in-residence at Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.  She co-directed The Rape of Europa, a documentary about the fate of Europe's art treasures during WWII. The Rape of Europa played theatrically in 80 cities across the country, was shortlisted for the 2008 academy award and was nominated for two national Emmy awards.  Nicole also co-directed the Emmy-nominated film Sentenced Home, following three Cambodian refugees in Seattle who are deported back to Cambodia after 9/11.  She field-produced the Emmy-nominated film Skin, for PBS and National  

Produced and Directed by
Maren Grainger-Monsen & Nicole Newnham

Editor
Andrew Gersh

Director of Photography
Joel Shapiro

Sound Recordists
Michael Seely
Judy Karp
Paul Rusnak
Len Schmitz

Associate Producers
Grace Raso
Michael Seely

Associate Producer for Helianthus Media
Jenni Nelson

Additional Camera
Foster Wiley

Original Music
B. Quincy Griffin

Additional Editing
Greg Sirota

Animation
Jossie Malis

Production Assistants
Elias Castro
Elizabeth Fiedler
Craig Hickerson

Color Correction
Jeremey Lavoi

Transcription
Raina Glazener

Bookkeeping
Carol Wallace
Mark Campbell

Advisors
Mildred Cho, PhD
Alan Leshner, PhD
David Magnus, PhD
Tom Raffin, MD

Special Thanks
The Appell Family
Paula Bailey
Angela Boyce
Hilda Cardona, RN
Anne Crowe
Christie and Jackie Falco
William A. Gahl, MD, PhD
Gretchen Golas, MSN, CRNP
Jeff Grainger
John Haptas
HPS Network Puerto Rico
Heather Kirkwood
Susan Koehn
Raymond MacDougall
Tom Malarkey
Elizaira Negrón-Ojeda
Kevin O’Brien, CNP
Israel Rodriguez
José Salas
Jon Shenk
Sharon Terry, MA
Maya Wolpert
&
The entire HPS community

Production Funding:
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Stanford Center for Integration of 
Research on Genetics and Ethics
The Greenwall Foundation

Support for Distribution:
Spectrum:  Stanford Center for Clinical
and Translational Education and Research
with a Clinical Translational Science Award,
National Institutes of Health

The producers would like to thank:
Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics
Reveas Foundation
Colleen and Robert Haas

High School version funded in part by:  
Science Education Partnership Award
National Center for Research Resources and
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
National Institutes of Health

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