Independent Lens: The Picture Taker
Picture Taker, LLC, Realization Pictures, ITVS, and BPM, in association with K2 Pictures and Ark Media
PBS’ Independent Lens recognizes the complicated life of Ernest Withers, a Civil Rights photographer and FBI informant. Withers’ nearly 2 million images provided an important record of Black history, but his legacy was marred by decades of secret FBI service revealed after his death.
PRIMARY PRODUCTION CREDITS
Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen, Leslie Fields-Cruz, Tony Decaneas, Eric Meola, Robert F. Katz, Philip W. Hack. Producers: Lise Yasui, Phil Bertelsen. Director: Phil Bertelsen. Editors: Paula Heredia, Bryan Gunnar Cole. Original Score: Erin O’Hara. Directors of Photography: Jerry Henry, Aaron Baggett, Keith Walker. Supervising Producer: Michael Kinomoto. Consulting Producers: Noland Walker, Jake Perlin. Supervising Sound Editor: Jeff Seelye. Re-recording Mixer: Tom Efinger. Sound Editing: Jeff Hinton, Emmett Ceglia.