SOFT VENGEANCE

ALBIE SACHS & THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA | a film by Abby Ginzberg

Produced and Directed by 

Abby Ginzberg

Co-Produced and Edited by

Ken Schneider

Consulting Producer

Rick Goldsmith

Executive Producers 

Alfre Woodard

Deborah Santana

Associate Producer

Kevin Gordon

Archival Researchers

Nhlanhla Mthetwa

Sage Brucia

Graphic Designer

Mat Baldwin

Original Score  

Marco d'Ambrosio

Music Supervisor 

Terri d'Ambrosio

Scoring Assistant 

Ryan Houck

Cinematographers

Clifford Bestall

Brian Dowley

Vicente Franco

Dan Gold

Nic Hofmeyr

Padraic O’Meara

Fabio Ribeiro

Gordy Waterman

Sound Engineers

Miguel Franco

Sean O’Neil

Robin Harris

Sebastian Dunn

Production Assistants

Marieta Manjete (Mozambique)

Htat Htut

Narration Writers

Rick Goldsmith

Sharon Wood

Ken Schneider

Abby Ginzberg

Assistant Editor

Jason Boyce

Impact Producer

Joslyn Rose Lyons

Voice of Albie Sachs in Jail Diary

Clifford Bestall

Voices of Freedom Charter

Rose Barlow

Louis Freedberg

Pippa Gordon

Carl Lumbly

Transcribers

Raina Glazener

Kate Goldsworthy

Post Production Audio by Berkeley Sound Artists

Sound Design and Rerecording Mixer

James LeBrecht

Rerecording Mixer

Dan Olmsted

Sound Editors

Jamie Branquinho

Chase Keehn

Bijan Sharifi

Digital Intermediate by Colorflow, Berkeley, CA

DI Colorist                            Kent Pritchett

On-Line Editor                     Alexander MacLean
DI Executive Producer         Alex D. da Silva

DI Producer.                         Kim Salyer

Technical Director                Adam Gerardin

Client Services                     Julia McEntee


Archival footage courtesy of

ABC News Videosource

Associated Press

BBC Motion Gallery

Corbis Motion

Institut National de L’audiovisuel (INA)

Israel Film Service

ITN Source

Mack Lundy

Quizzical Pictures

South African Broadcasting Corporation

Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

T3 Media

UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives

TRC footage courtesy of Iris Films and

Long Night’s Journey into Day

Produced and Directed by Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffman

Shacks footage courtesy of Sleeping Giant, LLC

Dear Mandela

Produced and Directed by Dara Kell

Archival photos courtesy of 

Albie Sachs

Slovo Family Archive 

Solodov Alexey / Shutterstock

Associated Press

AFP / Getty Images

UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives

Baileys African History Archive

National Archives of South Africa

National Library of South Africa

All rights reserved

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Special Thanks 

Denise Abrams

Julie Ahrens

Penny Andrews

Steve Arcieri

Fazana Badat

Al Bendich

David Bergad

Sol Carvalho

Jeri Lynn Cohen

David Edgar

Connie Field

Louis Freedberg

Harriet Gavshon

Pippa Gordon

Pam Harris

Lt. Col. Elizabeth Hermanus, 

Maitland Police Station

Marcia Jarmel

Dara Kell

Sharon LaCruise

Paolo Negron

Kate O’Regan

Tim Plenk

Frances Reid

Susan Rabinowitz

Susan Rutberg

Oliver Sachs

Jane M. Saks

Deborah Santana

Lomin Saayman

Vanessa September

Steve Talbot

Franklin Thomas

Amy Thornton 

Darren Walker

Marilyn Waller

Gary Weimberg

Major Funding provided by 

The Ford Foundation

Additional funding provided by

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (UK)

Jules Bernstein and Linda Lipsett Fund

Al Bendich Charitable Trust

Saul Zaentz Charitable Trust

Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund

Do A Little Fund of the San Francisco Foundation

McGeorge Law School

Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media

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Denise Abrams/ David Harrington

Edie Barschi

Michael Castleman/ Anne Simons

Francis Fernandez/ Carmen Flores

Jim Finberg/ Melanie Peich

Sandi Hunt

Rob Kessler/ Sally Benjamin

Jody LeWitter/ Marc Van De Hout

Dianna Lyons

Rich and Nancy Robbins

Marilyn Waller/Doron Weinberg


Fiscal Sponsor

Kovno Communications, Inc.


Music

“Mystical Journey”

Composed and Performed by Michael Mollura

Vocals by Violeta Villacorta; Cello by Eddie Young

Produced by Keith Kohn.

Courtesy of Michael Mollura © 2012


"African Marketplace"

Written by Abdullah Ibrahim

Published by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP)

With kind permission of ENJA Records M . Winckelmann GmbH"


“Uptownship”

Written and Performed by Hugh Masekela

Published by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)

o/b/o Kalahari Music

Licensed exclusively from Entertainment One U.S. LP


“Mabasa”

Written by Oliver Mtukudzi / Steve Dyer (SAMRO)

Published by Tuku Music / Ikwezi Music (SAMRO)

Courtesy of Tuku Music & Sheer Sound


“Climate Refugees”

Written and Performed by Michael Mollura

Cello by Eddie Young

Produced by Keith Kohn.

Courtesy of Michael Mollura © 2010


“Davashe’s Dream”

Written by Mackay Davashe

Performed by CHRIS McGREGOR'S BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH

Published by

©2006 A Wing & A Payer Limited

Recording courtesy of Fledg'ling Records


“A gua” and “Lucifer” 

Written and Performed by Elvino Nhantumbo

From the CD “A Get Together Party with Friends”

Courtesy of Elvino Nhantumbo


 “Shosholoza”

Performed by the Drakensburg Boys Choir

Arranged by CA Botha

Published by Sheer Publishing


“Senzenina”

Sung by WorldSong

Musical Director Una May Olomolaiye

From the CD "Made from Silence" ©2010


“Somlandela” and “Power” 

Arranged and Performed by Vukani Mawethu

From the CD “People Arise”

Courtesy of Vukani Mawethu



Copyright 2014

Ginzberg Productions