National Film Board
Eyesteelfilm
KinoSmith
in association with
Telefilm Canada and the Rogers Group of Funds
through the Theatrical Documentary Program
present
an EYESTEELFILM
In co-production with the
National Film Board of Canada
with the financial assistance of
SODEC
Société de développement des entreprises culturelles — Québec
A film by Yung Chang
featuring
Juan Fernando Aguilar Morán
Richard Campbell
Isabella Dalla Ragione
Noris Ledesma
Ken Love
Bill Pullman
Bala Tingang
music by
Olivier Alary
with Johannes Malfatti
special effects and animation
Brandon Blommaert
Fred Casia
sound design
Kyle Stanfield
editors
Hannele Halm
Omar Majeed
Mila Aung-Thwin
director of photography
Mark Ó Fearghail
executive producers
Daniel Cross
Ravida Din
Robin Smith
produced by
Bob Moore
Mila Aung-Thwin
Kat Baulu
based on the book
THE FRUIT HUNTERS
by Adam Leith Gollner
written by
Yung Chang
Mark Slutsky
Mila Aung-Thwin
directed by
Yung Chang
Featuring
Juan Fernando Aguilar Morán
Richard Campbell
Isabella Dalla Ragione
Noris Ledesma
Ken Love
Bill Pullman
Bala Tingang
Participants
BALI
Gusti Made Budiatmika, Desak Kompyang Deris
I Gusti Made Rai, Gusti Ayu Nyoman Saneh
Bhaskar Savani, Aaron Yair
BORNEO
Sepiah Bz Abdullah, Dayang Atah
Naiiut Ak Balou, Hajjah Hasnah
Ning Jayang, Langub Kuya
Lucia Unchat, Chan Che Wai
HONDURAS
Rosa Maura Aguilar
Celso Ayala
Melvin Martinez
Jose David Villanueva
ITALY
Padre Massimo Brozzetti
Giovanni Ceci
Alvaro Dalla Ragione
Dante Valentini
LOS ANGELES
Tamara Pullman
Carolyn Ramsay
Alex Silber
Jeanette Spangler
Steve Spangler
Aiko Strasser
FLORIDA
Stephen Brady, David Burd, Sheehan Gobin
Jenny Burd, Cielo Foth
Richard Hawkins, Maurice Kong
Chris Rollins
Produced with the financial participation of
Canada Media Fund
Quebec Tax Credit
The Rogers Documentary Fund
Canada Tax Credit
The Shaw – Hot Docs Development Fund
Developed through the Canadian Film Centre Documentary program
Produced in Association with
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Line Producer
Susannah Heath-Eves
Line Producer (Re-creations)
Kieran Crilly
Production Designer
Corinne Merrell
Art Director
Louisa Schabas
Associate Producers
Adam Leith Gollner
Shiraz Janjua
Story Editor
Daniel Cross
Sound Recordist
Tod Van Dyk
Costume Designer
Alexis Walker
Casting Director
Nadia Rona
Production Manager
Daniela Flori
Production Coordinator
Ashley Duong
Production Administration
Anuj Khosla
Marketing and Distribution
Damien Detcheberry
Narrator
Yung Chang
DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION
Bali
Second Unit Camera: Van Royko
Sound: Ryan Mullins
Location Manager: Putu Kusuma Wijaya
Production Assistant: Maya Newell
Borneo
Second Camera: Chiau Ran Ma
Location Manager: Edgar Ong, Alwyn Tay
Fixers
Matius Senang Tala
Miki Senang
Voon Boon Hoe
Hawaii
Assistant Camera: Michael MK Siu
Production Coordinator: Lynn Beittel
Honduras
Location Manager: Matthew Kodath
Production Coordinator: Jose Neri Briones
Production Assistant: Alejandro Martinez, Danilo Solis
Italy
Camera: Alex Margineanu
Location Manager: Benoit Felici
Assistant Camera: Fabio De Felice
Los Angeles
Additional Sound: Tom Corkran
Hillary Stewart
Strider
Assistant Camera: Kevin Flora
Production Assistant: Eunsoo Cho
Yu Gu
Light Balloon Operator: Erik Arendt
Florida
Second Unit Camera: Van Royko
Sound: Ryan Mullins
Pablo Villega
Assistant Camera: Russell Fogle
Montreal Production
Second Unit Camera: Terryll Loffler
Alex Margineanu
Van Royko
RE-CREATIONS
First Assistant Director
Geoff Uloth
Second Assistant Director
Bryan Greenberg
Actors
(in order of appearance):
Marie-Alice Depestre………….Protohuman/Sumerian farmer/Grocer
Edward Langham……………….David Fairchild
Kyle Allat………………………….Rudolph Hass
Richard Jutras…………………..Clement Rodier
Kyle Gatehouse…………………John McIntosh
Russell Yuen…………………….Ah Bing/Lychee Rider
Henry Kwok…………………….Emperor Xuanzong
Li Li……………………………….Yang Guifei
Background Performers
(in order of appearance):
Michael Joseph………………. Fairchild’s Guide
Darren Curtis…………………..Photographer 20’s
Heidi Lynne Weeks…………..Elizabeth Haas
Michaela Spedaliere …………Rudolph Hass’ daughter
Sienna Mazzone
Eduard Wolf Jones……………Rudolph Hass’ son
Enrique James Leclair
Liam Casale
Serge Bedrossian……………..Monk #1
Roberto Ozores………………..Monk #2
First Assistant Camera
Maxime Gagnon
Gaffer
Jacques Girard
Best Boy Electric
Conrad Roy
Electric
Léandre Mineau St-Pierre
Key Grip
Jean-Maurice DeErnsted
Best Boy Grip
Claude Gervais
Grip
Emil De Ernsted
Script Supervisor
Ashley Duong
Head Wardrobe
Anya Taraboulsy
Wardrobe Assistant
Amanda Moss
Wardrobe Intern
Amanda Russell
Miniatures Art Director
Veronica Classen
Model Makers
Louisa Schabas, Deborah Sullivan, Joseph Gagné
Lead Greensman
Roger Martin
Scenic Technicians
Nicolas Marsan
Reno Hébert
Iain Duguid
Thibault Bensa
Art Department Assistant
Deborah Sullivan
Christina Vincelli
Art Department Interns
Jesse Orr
Stephanie Bokenfohr
Paola Ridolfi
Tim Powell
Mandy Benoualid
Aleksandra Bjelica
Maxine Krawczyk
Elena Petkovic
Rachel Woroner
James Watts
Melanie Guilbault, Julia Haney
Sara-Claude Lépine
Property Master Sarah Buchanan
Key Hair & Makeup Isobel Mulder
Assistant Hair & Makeup Sydney Krause
Key Special Effects Makeup
CJ Goldman
Prosthetic Makeup Effects
Julie Brisebois
Special Effects Makeup Assistant
Jonathan Lavalée
Visual Effects Supervisor Fred Casia
DIT
Sean Sweeney
Still Photography
Genevieve Danforth
Mark Slutsky
Production Assistants
Mike Harris
Leon River-Moore
Catering Jean-Marie Marcoux
Motion Control
Patrick Bouchard
Rapid Prototyping Model Prep
Stu Hughes
Extras Casting
Linda Rona
POSTPRODUCTION
Post Production Supervisors
Gary Evans
Edmund Duff (ESF)
Technical Coordinator (NFB)
Jean-Francois Laprise
Julie Laperrière
Assistant Editor
Assistant editor: Dominic Drolet
Additional assistant editor: Ashley Duong
Sound
Sound editor: Kyle Stanfield
Dialogue & Additional Sound Editor: Luc Raymond
Music Personnel
Olivier Alary: Guitar
John Corban: Violin, Viola
Erik Hove: Flute, Melodica
Jean Christophe Lizotte: Cello
Johannes Malfatti: Zither, Percussion
Sarah Pagé: Harp
Andres Vial: Vibraphone, Marimba
Jean-Olivier Bégin: Trombonist
Translators
Spanish: Marco Luna, Karina Garcia Casanova
Italian: Carlito Ghioni, Daniela Flori
Balinese: June Arya
Penan: Mutang Urud
Transcribers
Karina Garcia Casanova
Rebecca West
Interns
Sophie Bédard Marcotte
Mandy Benoualid
Wendy Gwosdz
National Film Board of Canada
Head of Coordination & Project Support
Pierre Ferlatte
Technical Coordinator
Steve Hallé
Project Technical Coordinators
France Couture
Micheline Faubert
Julie Laperrière
Jean-François Laprise
Digital Editing Technicians
Pierre Dupont
Isabelle Painchaud
Patrick Trahan
Digital Imaging Specialist
Eloi Champagne
Randall Finnerty
Foley Artist
Lise Wedlock
Foley Assistant
Fanny Dubois
Foley Recording
Geoffrey Mitchell
Re-recording Mixer
Serge Boivin
Marketing Manager
Jenny Thibault
Publicist
Patricia Dillon-Moore
Senior Production Coordinators
Camila Blos
Isabelle Limoges
Production Coordinators
Sia Koukoulas
Christine Williams
Program Administrator
Leslie Anne Poyntz
Business affairs
Stéphanie L’Écuyer
Jean-Claude Wasik
Technicolor, Creative Services – Montreal
Account Manager
Lyne Lapointe
Project Manager
Valerie Lavoie
Digital Colorist
Eric Gaudry
Online Editors
Serge Harvey, François Massé, Mathieu Beausoleil
Subtitles
Roxanne Deslongchamps
ARCHIVES
Archival Research
Edmund Duff
Ashley Duong
Additional Research
Ksenia Yurganova
Elizabeth Klinck
Bonnie Rowan
Visual Archives Sources
Noris Ledesma
Richard Campbell
Bill Pullman
Ken Love
Bridie Macdonald
Luis Almaguer
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Archives
Washington State Historical Society
Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst
Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden
Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image # SIA2011-0011.
Canterbury Museum. Image # 1947.229.28.
SchoolhistoryNZ
1tv Russia
Stock footage
Art Resource – Corbis Images
Footage Farm – Getty Images
iStockphoto – Prelinger Archives
T3Media
“The Mango Songâ€
Written by: Joyce Winters
Performed by: Marty Robbins
Columbia Records, 1964
Legal:
Dean Chenoy – Heenan Blaikie
Accounting:
Hecht Heft Lamoureux
The filmmakers would like to thank:
Bali
Iga Eka Sukariasih
Peter Wall
The residents of Pangsan
Borneo
The Penan and Kelabit of Long Napir
Voon Boon Hoe
Bobby Tee
Mutang Urud
Florida
Maryellen Cox Lopez, Noel Ramos,
Ian Maguire, Har Mahdeem
Roger Meyer. Rico Montenegro
Curtis Mozie. Juan Valls
Leila Werner
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Fruit and Spice Park
Miracle Fruits Exchange, Inc. (Jose Fernando Aristizabal and Curtis Mozie)
University of Florida, Tropical Research and Educational Center
Williams Grove at the Fairchild Farm
Hawaii
Chef James Babian, Chef Paul Heerlein
Richard Kuehner. Marg Love
Dwight Manago, Margaret Schattauer
Frankie’s Nursery, Manago Hotel
Honduras
Honduras Foundation for Agricultural Research
Italy
Giovanni Lucia Delogu, Alessandro Rosetti
Annie Cottrau, Lida Amantini
Calagreti Euio, Ardengo Rosanini
Maria Cristina Leonard, Serena Dandini
Archeologia Arborea, Convento S. Giovanni Battista agli Zoccolanti
Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria
Los Angeles
Debbi Aldahl, John Allen
Courtney Arwin, Bruce Blavin
Robert Board, Alice Carbone
Hsu-Wei Chow, Reginald Fagan
Corina Fernandez, Linda Fuller
Michael Fuller, Laura Garcia
Meg Glasser, Terry Hyunh
Max Kanter, Brock Kleweno
Gary Knowlton, Tom LaBonge
Tommy Lamey, Noa Winter Lazeris
Toby Leaman, Jodi Long
Kathleen McInnis
Jeffrey Meyer, Ernest Miller
Rick Nahmias, Patti Peck
The Pullman Family, Bill Reichenbach
Fran Reichenbach, Mike Robe
Jamie Rosenthal, David Silber
Tina Silber, Walter Smith
Drew Spangler, Gina Thomas
Cynthia Troyer, Edgar Valdivia
Emory R. Walton Jr., Shan Wickramasinghe
The residents of Beachwood Canyon & Glen Green Street
Besant Lodge
California Rare Fruit Growers
Cheremoya Avenue Elementary School
Exotica Rare Fruit Nursery
Fallen Fruit
The Farmer’s Kitchen
Food Forward
Hollywood Orchard
Papaya Tree Nursery
Trombones-L.A.
Wattles Farm
West LA California Rare Fruit Growers
Yamashiro
Montreal
Berman & Co. – Cinepool
Clairmont Camera – Departement Camera
Les Fermes Lufa – Theresa Huang
Jean-Talon Market – Maurice Kam Thong
Metro Inc. – Perry Nguyen
Productions Radios – Les serres J.-C. Lauzon et fils enr.
Sami Fruits – Sim Minerals
Tamara’s Backdrops – Walter Lighting and Grip
Wang Li Zheng
Brad Abrahams, Xavier Aung-Thwin
Debra Berman, Marc Boucrot
Petr Cech, Jessica Chen
Harlene Freezer, Mary Graziano
Andrew Gregg, Sturla Gunnarson
Robert J. Harvey, Jay Hersker
Oscar Jaitt, Christoph Jorg
Maria Karagioules, Hon Yuen Leong
Annie Katsura Rollins, Mitchell Kezin
Sheena Macdonald, Jerry McIntosh
Robin McKenna, Ian Mackenzie
Kevin McMahon, Roddy McManus
Linda Merrell, Robert Palter
Erik Pauser, Linda Petty
Sarah Polley, Jesse Radja
Sarah Resnick, Jan Röed
Shelly Saywell, Tim Southam
Richard Spiegel, Pat Sweeney
Nicole Tunstall, Michelle van Beusekom
John Walker, Larry Weinstein
Wim Wenders, Angela Whitman
Dylan Williams, Peter Wintonick
The Zaiger family
Documentary Organization of Canada’s Giving Voice program sponsored by documentary
Hamptons International Film Festival
Hot Docs Forum – Elizabeth Radshaw
Tropical & Rare Fruit Councils in North America
With special thanks to the people who cultivate and grow exotic tropical fruit around the globe. Their dedication, passion and love of fruit has made this film possible.
Eyesteelfilm – National Film Board of Canada
©copyright 2012 Eyesteel (Fruit Hunters) Productions Inc.