Movie Credits

Developed with the assistance of Film Victoria. 

Editor
Rob Murphy

Associate Producer
Rob Murphy

Archives Producer
Lenny de Vries

Writer and Researcher
Sarah Barton

Camera & Sound
Sarah Barton

Additional Camera
Joanne Donahoe-Beckwith
Rob Murphy
Peter Grosz

Camera Assistants
Jasper Stephens
Clark Matthews

Additional Sound Recording
Jim Dunwoodie

Voiceover
Paul McCarthy

USA Archives Researcher
Michele McKenzie

Additional Archives Research
Liz Burke
Katrina Mathers
Sarah Barton
Veronica Gregoric

Motion Graphics
Kingdom of Ludd

On-line editor and colourist
Marcus Herrick
Haiku Productions

Sound Post Production
Soundwaves

Dialogue Editor
Frank Lipson

Sound Design
Erin McKimm

Foley
Feet ‘n’ Frames John & Lisa Simpson

Sound Mixer
Andrew McGrath

Music Supervisor
Kate Dean

Original Music and Recording by Erin McKimm
© 2016 Native Tongue Music Publishing Pty Ltd

Additional Music by Antony Partos and David McCormack

“It’s A New Day”
Performed by Skull Snaps
Licensed by arrangement with Essential Music Group LLC

“Let’s Riot”
Performed by The Fugertivs
Written by Karen Sheader(Copyright Control)
Licensed courtesy of Karen Sheader

“Choices and Rights” 
Performed and licensed by Johnny Crescendo

“Wheels on the Bus”
Performed and licensed by Johnny Crescendo

“Fixed Penalty Notice (A Parking Ticket)”
Performed and licensed by Johnny Crescendo 

Legals
Shaun Miller
Shaun Miller Lawyers

Accountant
Anthony Nagle and Co

Thanks to the interview subjects

Adolf Ratska

Nadina Laspina

Samantha Connor

Peter Cassar

Rosemary Crossley

Bob Kafka, Zona Roberts

Chris Borthwick

Jan Daisley

Judy Hunt

Johnny Crescendo (aka Alan Holdsworth)

Liz Carr

Jean Searle

Nancy Salandra

Mike Ervin

Lawrence Carter-Long

Lesley Hall

Joan Hume

Stella Young

Pam Thomas

John Moxon

George Taleporos

Anne McDonald

Peter Mendoza

Craig Wallace 

Stephanie Thomas

Colin Barnes

Susan O’Hara

Frank Hall-Bentick

Mike Letch

Sian Vasey

Allan Sutherland

Tom Shakespeare

Julia Haraksin

Hale Zukas

Mary Lou Breslin

Kitty (Curtis) Cone

Steve Hurd

Bruce Bonyhady

Developed and Produced with the assistance of 

Transport Accident Commission

Department of Human Services Victoria

Victoria Law Foundation

Yoorall

The Winston Churchill Memorial Truste

Disability Services Commissioner

City of Melbourn

Special thank you to

Len Barton

Carol Thomas

Peter Beresford

Warren Shaw

Cathleen Holdsworth Richard Devylder

Kathleen Martinez

Joan Leon

Douglas Biklen

Samantha French

Lester Bostok

Gayle Rankine

Rosemary Kayess

Graeme Innes

Norma Robertson-Dobrowski

Nina Sprecher

Rhonda Galbally

Steve Warne

Gordie Haug

Geoffrey Barton

Stella Barton

Curtis Barton

Katrina Mathers

Veronica Gregoric

John Ritchards

Nell White

Beth Frey

Peter Johnstone

Judy Heumann

Yoshiko Dart

Fiona Tuomy

Kath Duncan

Paul Copeland

David Doepel

Hugh Rose-Miller

Glenn Redmayne

Katie Ball

Philly Cam

Mike Oliver

Susanne Gottstein

Jeanette Lee

Paul Richardson

Joe Varga

Madeleine Sobb

Catherine Gough-Brady

Jen Hughes

Peter George

Paul Ritchard

RMIT University

Sun Theatre

Peter George

Tari Hartmann-Squire

Alex Stoll

Britt Arthur

Thank you to our Pozible Supporters

Josephine Healy

Frank Hall-Bentick

Janie Meredith Carter

Robyn James

Christine Walton

Colin Brokenshire

Nicole Ma

Dougie Herd

Fiona O’Riordan

Susanne Berg

Keran Howe

Anna Welch

Gai Longhurst

Malcolm Fraser

Geri Barr

Angie Muccillo

Kim S Beamish

Les Mallett

Shu Shu Zheng

Andrew Longhurst

Ricky Buchanan

Victoria Garner

Suzie stanford

Matt Lewis

Darren Paskell

Phil Ferguson

Kristie Hedington

Lee Elizabeth Baker

Bronwen Scott

Annabell Carr

Leonie Dickinson

Dina Theodoropoulos

Rebecca Dominguez

Robert Macfarlane

Cathie Wills

Cheryl Gardner

Daniel Mulvihill

Quentin Kenihan

Ivonne van Eerd

Cameron Cutts

Hugh Rose-Miller

Liz Burke

Simone Burley

John Retallick

Jesse the K

Kate Reid

Kate Croucher

Rohan Brooks

Claudine Lewis

Melanie Coombs

Virginia GordonWayne Hodges

Jane Kiddell

Emma Hughes

Caroline Man

Louis Rowe

Margaret Stevens

Glenyys Romanes

Jackie Williams

Shirley Morganstein

Rosie Gehrig-Mills

Caren Brand

Tony Mills

Mark Feigan

Kristal Burry

Lynne & Greg Young

Annabel Carr

Fiona Tuomy

Kerry Stubbs

Belinda Smith

Graeme Innes

Steve Warne

Stella Young

Katrina Nossal

Emma Poole Sharples

Marsha Katz

Russell Pollard

Kristy Fuller

Tim Sonreich

Megan Murphy Jim rr

Wendy Maguire

Nadina LaSpina

Stephanie Thomas

Denise Chapman

John Allen

Tim Carigg

Debbie

Chiton

Virginia Knowlton Marcus

Rob McNeilly

Sorrel Standish-White

John Moxon

Marg Spencer

Linda Bloom

John Lentz

Alison Kershaw

Leane Leggo

Marilyn Forde

Leonie Dickinson

Catherine McNamara

Pauline Brockett

Ade Djajamihardja

Geoffrey Barton

Alison Sweep

Rosemary Crossley

Dianne Winkler

Debra Allanson

Kate Reid

Paul Richardson

Paul Copeland

Jeff Browett

Roslyn Walker

Maree Gill

Ruth Healy

Susanne Berg

Margaret Stevens

Suzanne Lau Gooey

Corey Fisk

Jenny Harrison

Glenda Lee

Samantha Connor Vđ, Madeleine Sobb

Gina Wilson-Burns

Jackie Softly

Nat Keals

Katrina Nossal

Allison Reynolds

Leanne Pearman

Lauren Matthews-Nicholls

Nat Keals, Gary Matthews

Fiona McLeod

Penny Wilson.

Archive courtesy of

Northcott Disability Services

Vadim Stein

Rebecca Pilditch

Nadina LaSpina

Warren Raymond/Freak Museum

Leonard Cheshire Archive Centre/Le Court Films

Marc Thiessen/National Geographic Creative

Katharine Ott/National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Gordon Haug, ADAPT Archive

Steven Taylor, Center on Human Policy, Syracuse University ‘Christmas in Purgatory’

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Library Sales

Kathy Gerrow NBC10

Michael Roarty & Barney Catchlove, ‘Captives of Care’

William Bronston

Antiquity Echoes

Abandoned Steve

Newsreel Archive/Nine Network Australia

Newsreel Archive/AP Archive

Kerry Richardson ‘The Kids Are Alright’

Seven Network

Yooralla Historical Society

State Library of Victoria,M. Kidney, Red Letter Press

State Library of Victoria, Tanya McIntyre

Philip Heuzenroeder, ‘Exit Q’

Stefan Sergant, University of Warwick Archive

John Fredricks, The Lutheran Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tim Griffith, ‘Ed Roberts Campus Film’

POND 5 

People with Disability Australia Incorporated (PWDA)

Erik Kondo

Paul Hunt archival material courtesy of Judy Hunt

ITN Source

Peter Johnstone, St Kilda Access TV

When Billy Broke His Head’ footage courtesy of David E. Simpson & Billy Golfus

Mark Cunningham

Kim Batterham, ‘Pins and Needles’

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, ‘The Power of 504’

Tari Hartman Squire

Frank Hall-Bentick, Disability Resources Centre

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum

Link Disability Magazine

WMAR-TV

AP via AAP

WNET

Getty Images/BBC

Cerebral Palsy Alliance

Tom Olin/The Disability Rights Center

The Australian War Memorial

National Film and Sound Archive

Artist: Sue Austin. www.wearefreewheeling.org.uk Videographer: Norman Lomax

Mary-Ellen Mark

Yoshiko Dart

FOX-TV

Jonathan Webb

HolLynn D’Lil, author, ‘Becoming Real in 24 Days’

AXIS Dance Company. Sonsheree Giles and Lisa Bufano. Photo: Trib LaPrad.

AXIS Dance Company. Joel Brown and Sebastian Grubb. Photo David DeSilva

Zona Roberts

Bancroft Library, University of Southern California, Berkeley

Joan Leon

Colleen Starkloff

Johhny Crescendo aka Alan Holdsworth

Fertile Films ‘Untold Desires’

Disability Media Australia ‘No Limits’

Syracuse University ‘Christmas in Purgatory: a Photographic essay on Mental Retardation’

We have made our best endeavours to locate all owners of archival copyright content. If you believe that you are the copyright owner of any content, please contact the filmmakers at: http://www.fertilefilms.com.au/defiant-lives

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