Kerry Candaele Writer/Director/Producer

Producer/Director, was born in Vancouver, and grew up in Lompoc, a small working-class town on California’s central coast. He has produced and directed several documentary films, including Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, and Iraq For Sale. He also co-produced the documentary, A League of Their Own, about his mother’s experience in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), which was later turned into a blockbuster hit starring Tom Hanks and Madonna. He attended Columbia University, where he was a Richard Hofstader Fellow in American History. He has also worked all over the world for with the Democracy Council (www.democracycouncil.org ), an NGO dedicated to peaceful reform in developing nations. He is the author of two books on American history, and has written for both scholarly and popular publications. He lives in Venice, California, with his wife and three daughters.

Battle Hymns Productions, LLC
954 Indiana Ave, Venice CA, 90291
kc@kerrycandaele.com  310 430 1954

Kevin McGrath, Executive Producer

Chris Bottoms, Cinematographer

http://homepage.mac.com/chrisbottoms/iMovieTheater4.html

Sion Michel, Director of Photography

Films include Memory of a Geisha, winner of the academy award for best cinematography: www.sionmichel.com

Nick Higgins, Cinematographer

www.nickhiggins.com


George Mathew, Conductor/Musical Ambassador

The following statement by George Mathew about why he chose Beethoven's Ninth to be performed at Carnegie Hall for his fundraiser for South Asian earthquake victims.

"What is heard may sound like the familiar tune of the Ode to Joy from the 9th Symphony. It is that and much more. The percussion instruments come to us from the Turkish Military Bands of that time. What Beethoven is saying here, is no longer the utterance of an individual, but that of a civilization reaching out to fellow civilizations. What we hear is a German drinking song, embellished and elevated by Turkish music, music of the Islamic world. This sums up the possibility that stands before us today of artists, listeners, nations and civilizations embracing each other and being embraced by art and because of  art. There has perhaps never been a moment when it was more appropriate or more urgent to send out Beethoven’s and Schiller's cry of "Seid  Umschlungen, Millionen! (Be Embraced, You Millions!)"