(l to r) Producer/Director Linda Booker,
Rose, John & Janet Syriani and
Cinematographer Randy Benson

 

 

Deepest Gratitude to:

Rose Syriani, Sarah Syriani Barbari, John Syriani, Janet Syriani, Meg Eggleston, Mazen Barbari, Henderson Hill, Sister Helen Prejean, Russ Sizemore, Deborah Weissman

Special Thanks to:

Lesa Babb, Phil Booker, Battleground Inn, Greensboro, Capital Restorative Justice Project, Rev. Frank Dew, Don Eggleston, Ferguson Stein Chambers Gresham & Sumter, P.A., Grimes & Grimes of NC, P.A., Jim Haverkamp, Che Hooks, Sister Margaret Maggio, North Carolina Coalition for a Moratorium, People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Southern Documentary Fund, Susan Strozier, Jake Sussman, University United Methodist Church.

 

Credits

A By the Brook Films Production © 2007 www.bythebrookfilms.com

Produced & Directed by Linda Booker

Edited by Linda Booker

Cinematography Randolph Benson, Linda Booker

Original Music by Hans Stiritz

Featuring Rose, Sarah, Janet & John Syriani, Meg Eggleston, Henderson Hill, Russell Sizemore, Deborah Weissman, Sister Helen Prejean, Mazen Barbari, Teresa Barbari

Additional Camera Mark Barroso, Scott Langley

Sound Post/Additional Editing Hans Stiritz

Title Sequence Design Durward Rogers

Trailer Edited by Hans Stiritz

Photos Courtesy of The Syriani family, Meg Eggleston, Scott Langley

Archival Material ABC News/Good Morning America, Charlotte Coalition for a Moratorium Now, The Charlotte Observer, CNN-The Larry King Show, The News & Observer, WTVD ABC-11 Eyewitness News, WRAL-TV Capitol Broadcasting Company

Linda Booker: Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematographer

LOVE LIVED ON DEATH ROW is Linda Booker's first feature length documentary film. She completed Duke University's Certificate in Documentary Studies Program in 2005. Her first project MILLWORKER THE DOCUMENTARY that she produced and edited appeared at The Sometime in October Film Festival in Wilmington, NC and Indie Memphis in 2005 and was later distributed to preservation organizations and schools in North Carolina. Linda Booker's professional experience includes 15 years as an art director and graphic designer after graduating from Florida State University. In 2005 Linda formed By the Brook Productions www.bythebrookfilms.com based in Central North Carolina to produce documentaries and outreach videos for non-profits.

Hans Stiritz: Original Music, Sound Post, Editing, Trailer

Stiritz has composed scores for several independent feature film productions, including CHASING THE WIND (directed by Charles B. Pierce), STAY TUNED FOR MURDER and TOO SCARED TO LAUGH. He also scored a short film, SERENDIPITY LANE (starring Wes Bentley of 2000 Oscar winner "American Beauty"), which was a finalist in the 1995 Academy Awards' Student Film Competition. Video and film productions with his scores have won dozens of Addy and film festival awards in the Mid-south region and around the country. Corporate scoring clients include UNITED AIRLINES, ENTERGY, ALLTEL, MEMOREX/TELEX, TYSON and ALCOA. Stiritz recently formed Evening Films www.eveningfilms.com for producing, editing and directing film/video projects.

Randolph Benson: Cinematographer

Randolph Benson's film MAN AND DOG has appeared in eighteen film festivals in seven countries and has garnered numerous awards, most notably a Gold Medal in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesÍ Student Academy Awards. His work has been featured on the Bravo Network, the Independent Film Channel (Split Screen), WTTW-Chicago, UNC-TV (NC Visions), and Telewizja Polska S.A.- Poland, and received an Eastman Kodak Excellence in Filmmaking Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Benson is an instructor at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies and a graduate of Wake Forest University and of the North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking. Production is wrapping on Benson's most recent documentary, The Searchers, a film profiling the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It will premiere in Dallas, TX in the fall of 2007.