Writer, Producer, Director:
Joe Balass

Creative Consultant:
Giampaolo Marzi

Camera:
Joe Balass
Andrei Khabad
Marjo Ferwerda
Giampaolo Marzi

Sound:
David Ballard
Marjo Ferwerda

Editor:
Joe Balass

Editing Consultant:
Rolland Pollack

Additional Editing & Online:
Dennis Day

Sound Editor:
Martin Hurtubise

Assistant Director/Interpretor:
Giampaolo Marzi

With the generous participation of:

Imma Battaglia
Alberto Corteggiani
Giovanni Dall'Orto
Gianni Delle Foglie
Ivan Dragoni
Cardinal Roger Etchegaray
Bishop Jacques Gaillot
Vladimir Luxuria
Sonia Mangello
Silvano Moffa
Elisabeth Ohlson
Emiliano Placchi
Father Gino Rigoldi
Pier Paolo Torri

A special thanks to Katia Bellillo, Ivan Cattaneo, Maria Grazia Cuccinotta, Mauro Malinverno, Mario D'Onofrio, Eleonora Dall'Ovo, Andrea Ferrari, Sister Roberta Giudici, Giovanni Mappelli, Andrea Marnoni, Claudia Mauti, Massimo Mazzotta, Leone Passerman, Daniele Del Pozzo, Pecoraro Scanio, Monica Stambrini, Claudia Torresan, Patrizia Zappa Mulas and to the many other people who agreed to be interviewed for this film.

Images & music from the exhibition Ecce Homo, held in Forte Prenestino - Roma, used with the generous permission of Elisabeth Ohlson.

Original Music by Simon Carpentier

Additional Music:

Pasqualino Maragia and Tu si' na cosa grande
Performed by Domenico Modugno
Publisher: Italcanto Canada Ltd./ Intermède Media Inc.
Recording: Courtesy of WEA International Inc.

Petite Messe Solennelle - Cum Sancto Spiritu
Artists: Bulgarian Television & Radio Mixed Choir with Mihail Milkov
Writer: Gioachino Rossini
Publisher: Intermède Media Inc.
Recording: Courtesy of Forlane/Intermède Media Inc.

Graphic Concept:
Yudi Sewraj

Web design:
Etherworks

Avid Consultants:
Paola Freddi
Marlene Millar

Additional Camera:
Monica Stambrini
Marco Tani
Emanuele

Thanks to the actors and musicians in the performance of Laudes grido a tutta gente under the direction of Gigi Dall'aglio.

Thanks to the actors and musicians in the performance of Laudes grido a tutta gente under the direction of Gigi Dall’aglio.

Production Accountant:
Rickie Rosenbaum

Production Assistants:
Valere Poulin, Andrea Marnoni, Nilton Dos Santos Almeida, Maria Michails, Stephane Drolet

Additional Thanks to:
Roberta Angellili, Celine Bissonnette, Normand Boucher, Aldo Cassano, Memmo Caporilli, Danielle Charlebois, Giorgio Codibue, Massimo Cortesi, Francesca Davello, Ettorina, Lubomir Fabcin, Adrian Gonzalez, Ingo, Grant Innes, Daniele Iucolano, Yves Lafontaine, Bertrand Lachance, Denis Langlois, Antonello Lauriola, Philip Lewis, Marco Lupi, Pascal Maeder, Luigi Manconi, Monica Margrande, Raffaella Marzi, Marlene Millar, Christina Nati, Ludovico Pace, Allesandra di Pietro, Marie Potvin, Ramona Ramlochand, Rinaldo Rocco, Nicola Russo, Vivian Sallei, Rob Wilson Smith, Roberto Spagnol, Monica Stambrini, Yudi Sewraj, Carla Traversi, Tom Waugh, Margaret Wong; the staff and press office of the Baci factory; Elena Solari and the staff of the Canadian Embassy in Rome; Marcella Damiani, Roberto Bernardi and the staff of the Canadian Embassy in Vatican City; Claude Forget, Michel Gelinas and the staff of Cinéma Libre; Angèle Cyr, Youssef El Jai, Sylvain Cossette and Line Bodiguel at PRIM; the staff of the Forte Prenestino; the organisers & staff of the Romei e giubillei exhibit at the Palazzo Venezia; Christina Spina and the staff of the the Teatri Stabili dell'Umbria in Perugia; Marjorie Weeke and the staff of the Vatican Press Office, the Mario Mieli Association staff and organisers of WorldPride 2000, and everybody else who helped make this project happen.

News and archival footage provided by arrangement with RAITrade.

This film was made possible through the generous financial participation of :

The Canada Council for the Arts
The Millennium Fund
Media Arts Program

SODEC - Programme d'aide aux jeunes créateurs

Programme du crédit d'impot du Gouvernement du Québec

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

The Canadian Independent Film & Video Fund

The Canadian Government Film or Video Tax Credit Program

Additional support for this film provided by:
PRIM
Centre d'art médiatiques

The National Film Board - Filmmakers' Assistance Program

Cinéma Libre Distribution

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© Compass Productions Inc. 2002