Philip Sheppard

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  • 1971 on PBS Streaming now!

    1971 on PBS Streaming now!

    1971 scored by Philip Sheppard is streaming on PBS here.

    In 1971, long before Edward Snowden’s revelations of NSA surveillance, a group of citizens broke into a small FBI office in Pennsylvania, took every file, and shared them with the public. Their actions exposed the FBI’s illegal surveillance program of law-abiding Americans. Now for the first time, these anonymous Americans who risked everything share their story publicly.

    In the past several decades, whistleblowers have helped shape the nation’s history, from Deep Throat exposing President Nixon’s Watergate scandal to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s surveillance. But long before the dawning of the digital age, one group of citizens risked everything when they uncovered illegal government spying programs.

    The FBI, established in 1908, was for 60 years held unaccountable and untouchable until March 8, 1971, when The Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, as they called themselves, broke into a small FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, took every file, and shared them with the American public.

    After the break-in, the group sent the files to journalists at the Washington Post, which published them and shed light on the FBI’s widespread abuse of power. These actions exposed COINTELPRO, the FBI’s illegal surveillance program that involved the intimidation of law-abiding Americans, and helped lead to the country’s first congressional investigation of U.S. intelligence agencies.

    The activist-burglars then disappeared into anonymity for forty years. Until now. Never caught, these previously anonymous Americans — parents, teachers and citizens — publicly reveal themselves for the first time and share their story in the documentary 1971. Using a mix of dramatic re-enactments and candid interviews with all involved, the film vividly brings to life one of the more important, yet relatively unexplored, chapters in modern American history.

    Soundtrack/ score by Philip Sheppard.

    Stream 1971 on PBS Independent Lens.

     

    Film Credits

    A Film by
    Johanna Hamilton

    Directed and Produced by
    Johanna Hamilton

    Edited by
    Gabriel Rhodes

    Produced by
    Marilyn Ness
    Katy Chevigny

    Executive Producers
    Julie Goldman
    Abigail E. Disney
    Gini Reticker
    Laura Poitras

    Cinematographer (Interviews)
    Kirsten Johnson

    Cinematographer (Recreations)
    Andreas Burgess

    Original Music
    Philip Sheppard

    Written by
    Johanna Hamilton
    Gabriel Rhodes

    Associate Producer
    Danielle Varga

    Animation and Motion Graphics
    Dave Tecson

    Additional Photography
    Neil Barrett
    Nicholas Blair

    Sound
    Judy Karp
    Mark Maloof
    John Zecca
    Nejc Poberaj

    Recreations Unit

    Recreations Producer
    Maureen A. Ryan

    Production Designer
    Markus Kirschner

    First Assistant Director
    Sara Neuffer

    Production Manager 
    Brian Birch

    Art Director
    Shawn Anabel

    Casting Director
    Adine Duron

    CAST
    Peter Gregus: Bill
    Lauren A. Kennedy: Bonnie
    Jonathan Joel Brennan: Bob
    Rich Graff: John
    Daniel S. Taylor: Keith
    Dennis Brito: FBI Agent
    John Isgro: Custodian
    Kerry Malloy: FBI Agent
    Brian P. McCarthy: #9
    Matthew Smith: Citizens’ Commission
    Marilyn Ness: Citizens’ Commission
    Danielle Varga: Citizens’ Commission
    Paul Darren: Security Guard

    The filmmakers do not know the three unidentified burglars or the ninth person who withdrew from the break-in team.
    Any similarities that may exist between any of them and the actors in the reenactments are purely coincidental.

    Costume Designer
    Eniola Dawodu

    Key Hair/Makeup Artist
    Vera Stromsted

    Gaffer 
    Nicola Guarneri

    First Assistant Camera
    Alex Peterson George Alvarez

    Production Coordinator
    Jacey Heldrich

    Assistant Editors
    Eric Rockey
    Nora Ballard
    Michael Peterson

    Archival Clearances 
    Nan Wakefield

    Legal Services
    Karen Shatzkin

    Post Production Services
    Final Frame

    Digital Intermediate Online Editor 
    Owen Rucker

    Digital Intermediate Colorist
    Will Cox

    Digital Intermediate Producer
    Caitlin Tartaro

    Audio Post Provided by 
    Gigantic Post, NYC

    Sound Designer and Re-Recording Mixer
    Tom Paul

    Dialogue Editor
    Sam Edelstein

    Sound Effects Editor
    Andrea Bella

    Foley Artist
    Les Bloom

    Foley Mixer
    Carl Shillito

    Bookkeepers 
    Phil Lane
    Kelley A. Trotter

    Archival Materials
    All in the Family ©1972 Tandem Productions, Inc.
    Episode “Archie and the FBI.”
    Fight of the Champions © 1971
    Director: Art Fisher Producers: Neal Marshall & Art Fischer
    Interview with former FBI agent Terry Neist by Sam Green
    © The Free History Project
    ABCNEWS VideoSource and WPVI
    Critical Past
    FBI ©1965 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
    Historic Films
    KPIX-TV
    KRON-TV
    KYW-TV
    Pat McGrath
    National Archives and Records Administration
    NBC Universal Archives
    Nixon Library
    Oddball Film & Video
    San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive
    T3Media
    Temple Urban Archives
    UCLA Film & Television Archive
    WHAM-TV
    WPA Film Library
    Anne Flitcraft
    Associated Press
    Baltimore Sun Media Group
    Chicago Tribune
    Courier Post, Cherry Hill
    Carl Stern
    Delaware County Times
    Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, NY
    The Raines Family
    Keith Forsyth
    Sarah Davidon
    Corbis
    David Kairys
    Delaware County History
    Getty Images
    Greg Moore
    Haverford College
    Life Magazine
    Los Angeles Times
    Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
    LSUS Archives and Special Collections
    New York Times
    Newsday
    Philadelphia Inquirer
    Saint Joseph’s University Archives
    Theodore Hetzel Photograph Collection
    Swarthmore College Peace Collection
    Anthony Giacchino Camden 28 [Motion Picture] Collection
    Swarthmore College Peace Collection
    Temple Urban Archives
    University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections
    Washington Post
    Washington Star

    Music
    “I Spy (For the F.B.I.) / Foxy Devil”
    Luther Ingram & The G-Men‎
    Smash Records Re-released in 1971 following the revelations of the Media Burglary

    “A Whole New You”
    Written by Enion Pelta-Tiller
    Arranged and Recorded by David Tiller and Enion Pelta-Tiller
    Taarka, 2012

    Special Thanks
    The Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI
    Sarah Davidon
    James Kirkpatrick Davis
    Paco de Onis
    Kate Doyle
    Henry Dunn
    Mike German
    David Kairys
    Betty Medsger
    Laura Poitras
    Thom Powers, Ian Olds, and Rachel Rakes
    Max, Theo and Layla van Zyl
    Paul van Zyl
    Ben Wizner
    Pam Yates

    Fiscal Sponsor
    Women Make Movies, Inc.

    Executive Producer for ITVS
    Sally Jo Fifer

    Funding provided by
    The Ford Foundation JustFilms
    Candescent Films
    Fork Films
    Open Society Foundations
    Sundance Documentary Film Program
    New York State Council on the Arts
    The Fledgling Fund
    San Francisco Film Society
    Richard and Marianne Hamilton
    The Fund For Constitutional Government
    Vital Projects Fund
    Steward R. Mott Foundation
    Michael Hirschhorn and Jimena Martinez
    AMJ Foundation
    Susan Parker and Alan Belzer
    Keating Hawkins Gift Fund
    Puffin Foundation
    David Rudovsky
    Dr. Edward Herman
    Rick Cummings
    Josh Markel and Eva Gold

    1971 is a co-production of Maximum Pictures LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with Big Mouth Productions, Motto Pictures, and Fork Films, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)

    This film was produced by Maximum Pictures, LLC, which is solely responsible for its content.

  • God in America OST released

    My soundtrack for PBS’s forthcoming series God in America is out now on iTunes.

    We had the launch party for the series in New York the other day together with the lovely stars of the series Michael Emerson (of Lost fame) and Chris Sarandon (Whom I know from The Princess Bride).

    The series also stars Toby Jones – better known to some as Truman Capote and Dobby the house elf!

    Here’s a track from the show… I hope you like it

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  • God in America PBS

    My soundtrack for the forthcoming PBS Frontline series God In America is now available. Click here! Please drop me a line if you’d like more details. Here’s a track from the show…

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    Details from the press release for more info:

    From the debate over the building of an Islamic center near Ground Zero to the threat by a Florida church to burn copies of the Quran, religion continues to animate American political discourse just as it has since the country’s founding.

    Now, for the first time on television, God in America explores the tumultuous 400-year history of the intersection of religion and public life in America.

    A distinguished list of actors has been enlisted to portray the historical figures. Two-time Emmy winner Michael Emerson of Lost, delivers a powerful performance as Puritan leader John Winthrop; Oscar-nominated Chris Sarandon (The Princess Bride, Dog Day Afternoon) gives a poignant portrayal of Abraham Lincoln’s spiritual journey during the Civil War ; Olivier Award winner and Tony nominee Toby Jones (Frost/Nixon, Harry Potter , W) as George Whitefield, America’s first, national evangelical preacher; Keith David (Crash, Platoon) as abolitionist Frederick Douglass; and Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays (I Am My Own Wife) as the incarcerated Baptist minister Jeremiah Moore.

    Soundtrack by Philip Sheppard.

    A co-production of American Experience and Frontline, the six-hour series airs October 11-13 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS

  • Steal away

    Steal away

    The traditional spiritual ‘Steal Away’ played by an orchestra of cellos, followed by a postlude – solo viola James Boyd. Hope you like it..! This is to be broadcast on the soundtrack to ‘God in America’ – October 10th, 11th, 12th 2010.

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