Complete credits for Open Sesame the Story of Seeds Documentary
Directed, Produced and Edited by
Sean Kaminsky
Associate Producers
Gerard Beekman
Melissa Nicolardi
Sonia Whayman
Original Score
Lee Brooks
Title Design & Animation
Angela Stempel
Extra Special Thanks
Gerard Beekman
Food Democracy Now!
The Kaminsky Family
Laura Michalchyshyn
Seed Savers Exchange
Sonia Whayman
Each of the 667 Kickstarter backers who believed in this film.
What Makes a Seed Grow (in order of appearance)
Addie Nevitt
Diane Ott Whealy
Charles Eisenstein
John Glavis
Jere Gettle
Rowen White
Ken Greene
Tabitha Langel
Eric Herm
Nancy Redfeather
Eva Rose
Vandana Shiva
Open Sesame Sequence (in order of appearance)
Isaura Andaluz
Tabitha Langel
Gerard Beekman
Carl & Sheila Kaminsky
Seed School Students
Marleny Alfaro-Hernandez
Leah Atwood
Garth Bontrager
Sheree Brown
Robert Bugg
Francesca Claverie
Belinda Eriacho
Dora Espinoza
Mathew David Franz
Nury Galindo-Marquino
Travis Gerckens
Luis Herrera
Matt Immerman
Danielle Johnson
Xochitl Juarez
Sarah Leischow
Sean Ludden
Dora Martinez
Vivia MacKinnon
Melissa Mundt
Clare Price
Ines Ramos
Joel Ricci
Carol Smith
Pablo Willink
Sammy Zah
Assistant Editor
Jenina Podulka
Additional Camera
March Against Monsanto Melissa Nicolardi
Isaura Andaluz New Mexico Rudy Miera
Additional Animators
Open & Closing Animation: Heeyoung Park
Seed Ball Animation: Michael Pisano
Legal Counsel
Laverne Berry, Esq.
Woo Jung Cho, Esq.
Ola Ogurye, Esq.
Music Clearance Consultant
Abigail Kende
Production Mixed By
Thomas Lewin at MindSmack NYC
Social Media Marketing Outreach
Gabrielle Lui
Interns
Miranda Baum
Keisha Walcott
Seed Pack Artists (in order of appearance)
Jennifer Knaus
April Warren
David Gordon
Ustaya Tarnawsky
Willy Sweeney
Polly M. Law
Tona Wilson
Laura Moriaty
Kat Cappillino
Ryan Cronin
Melissa Mandel
Archival Footage and Photographs
Library of Congress
National Archives and Records
Pond5
Prelinger Archives
Seed Savers Exchange
USDA/Bruce Fritz
Videoblocks
Creative Commons Footage and Photographs
Timelapse Cress Video: openfootage.net
Timelapse Cress Macro Video: openfootage.net
Beets Photograph: Jeremy Keith
Wheatfield July Photograph: Andrea Praefcke
Horse and Plow Video: Internet Archives 35mm collection
Lettuce Mini heads photo: Jacopo Werther
Basil Timelaps Video: openfootage.net
Dreamstime Stock Photography
Tomato: Daniel Gilbey
Igauna: Pilar Echeverria
Yellow Pepper: Matthew Collingwood
Ostrich: Agno_Agnus
Apple: Matt Egginton
Photography
B&W Photo of Vandana Shiva: Courtesy of Thomas Jacob
Color Photo of Vandana Shiva: Courtest of Dirt! The Movie
Photo of Horace Pippin: Selden Rodman
Featuring Music (in order of appearance)
“Everything Is Changing”
Written and Produced by Noi
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
“River Meditation”
Written and Produced by Jason Shaw
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
“Chance Luck Errors in Nature, Fate, Destruction As a Finale”
Written and Performed by Chris Zabriskie
Published by You’ve Been a Wonderful Laugh Track (ASCAP)
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution License
“Sneeuwland”
Written and Perfromed by Oskar Schuster
Courtesy of Bad Panda Records
“Prelude No. 22”
Written and Performed by Chris Zabriskie
Published by You’ve Been a Wonderful Laugh Track (ASCAP)
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution License
“Alexander Platz 1930”
Written and Performed by European Big Band
Available under a Creative Commons Public Domain License
“Reverie (small theme)”
Written and Produced by _ghost
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution License
“Divider”
Written and Produced by Chris Zabriskie
Published by You’ve Been a Wonderful Laugh Track (ASCAP)
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution License
“R&R&R”
Written and Produced by PitX
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
“Unus Ex Disciplus Meis”
Written by Tomas Luise de Victoria
Available under a Creative Commons Public Domain License
“12 Mornings”
Written and Produced by Jason Shaw
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 US License
“I Have Often Told You Stories”
Written and Performed by Ivan Chew
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
“The Long Goodbye”
Written and Produced by John Pazdan
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution License
“Old Man Blanchard”
Written and Produced by Josh Woodward
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
“Hands Across the Sea”
Written by John Sousa
Performed by the United States Navy Band
Available under a Creative Commons Public Domain License
“Solo Acoustic Guitar”
Written and Produced by Jason Shaw
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
“Memorized No Vox”
Written and Produced by Josh Woodward
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution License
“Don’t Close Your Eyes”
Written and Produced by Josh Woodward
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
“Tiny Versions (Live)”
Performed by Joel Ricci
Written by Joel Ricci
Courtesy of Nonstop Solid Sound (BMI)
“Tiny Versions”
Performed by Joel Ricci & E. Ivy Ross Ricci
Written by Joel Ricci
Courtesy of Nonstop Solid Sound (BMI)
“Memorized No Vox”
Written and Produced by Josh Woodward
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution License
Very Special Thanks
Nutiva
Tall Grass Bakery
The Tides Foundation
Roger Abraham
David Baker
Laurie David
Kabir Bedi
Dany Beekman
Stephen Beekman
Isabelle Beekman
Andy Buckingham
Peter H. Cloutier
Joy DuPuis
Melissa Epple
Kayvan Ghassemi
John Hoff
Abdullah Jaradat
Natasha Kaminsky
Laura Kaminsky
Dorothy Lurie
Jeff Mansfield
Rudy Miera
Rob Moeller
Constance Morell
Dave Murphy
Dane Neller
Rebecca Newburn
Mario Nievera
Katherine Roberts
John Roulac
Roberta Seiler
Oskar Shuster
Stacey Slate
Lisa Stokke
Elizabeth Taggart
Eric Talbert
William Wildman
Amy Ziff
Gregg Zuman
Special Thanks
Amba Farm
Babes Against Biotech
Beekman 1802
Brickyard Educational Farm
Brooklyn Food Coalition
Deruyck Family Farm
Edible Schoolyard NYC
Food and Water Watch
Full Moon Farm
Glenview Mansion
Heritage Grain Conservancy
Hudson Valley Seed Library
Inglis Grain Elevators Historic Site
Institute of Near Eastern & African Studies
Leafcutter Designs
Lovett Productions
MindSmack NYC
National Heirloom Exposition
Native Seeds/SEARCH
Navdanya Research Foundation
Nick’s Organic Farm
Old Stone House Brooklyn
Organic Consumers Association
Organic Seed Alliance
Organic Seed Growers Trade Alliance
OWS Food Justice
Rooftop Ready Seeds
Seed Ball Bike Riders
Stone Barns Center
The Horticultural Society of New York
The Forks Market
USC Canada
Rigel Alfaro-Persen
Isaura Andaluz
Wafaa Al-Natheema
Catherine Annau
Estevan Arellano
Javier Arellano
Marleny Arfalo
Amoreen Armetta
Michael Behrens
Bella Bell
Mandy Botincan
Daniel Bowman-Simon
James L. Brewbaker
David Bruce
Nicci Cagan
Alison Caldwell
Sherry Capps
Steve Carlson
Nomi Carmona
Florence Casiano
Chris Chang
Michael Charles
Caroline Chartrand
Alexandra Christian
Micaela Colley
Allan Dawson
Patricia Dominguez
Mike Drumm
Bill Duesing
Erin G. Enouen
Johnny Ewashko
Vera Fabian
Jim Gerritson
Jere Gettle
Janine Gibson
Rick Gilbert
Geneviève Grossenbacher
Wesley Hannah
Cindy Hart
Wenonah Hauter
Erica Helms
Jeff Henigson
Gerry Herbert
John Hoffman
Michael Horowitz
Kristina Hubbard
Rob Johnston
Claudia Joseph
Lorraine Kehneratokwas-Gray
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Enoch Kim
Robert E. King
Daniel Kinch
Dan Kittredge
Harold Kopetsky
Mary Langford
Matthew Lawrence
Victoria Lesser
Sascha Lewis
Sonnye Lim
Matthew Linderbaum
Margaret Lotuin
Carissa Lovelace
Trevor Madsen
William J. Mann
Emily Martin
Madeline McCann
Neil MacDonald
Jeff Meeks
Steffan Mirsky
Yuichi Murayama
Chris Murtha
John Navazio
Brian Nelson
Waled Persen
Sheridan Phillips
Zachary Pickens
Lea Redmond
Brent Ridge
Margaret Roach
Nancy Romer
Jayda Rose
Christina Schiavoni
Ivy Sievers
Andrea Springmeir
Richard Stallman
Kathleen Stansell
Nita Stewart
Paul Sullivan
Kelly Tagtow
Eric Talbert
Elizabeth Travelslight
Johanna Unger
Rob Warner
Winton Wedderburn
Seth Wulsin
To all the Seed Keepers of the past, present and future