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| CHERYL FURJANIC (Director) is an award winning filmmaker currently
teaching documentary video production in the Culture and Media Program in NYU's
Department of Anthropology. Her previous films include TAKE THIS HAMMER, a study
of the traditions of American work songs as seen through the eyes of legendary
folk singer Pete Seeger, and DIMASSIMO TO THE RESCUE, a short comic documentary
about a NYC advertising agency's attempt to save the life of a veal calf. TAKE
THIS HAMMER, screened at the 1998 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival and
was awarded a Silver Apple in 1999 from the National Educational Media Network.
DIMASSIMO TO THE RESCUE was screened in the New Filmmakers Series at the Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Cheryl worked as associate
producer on the documentary feature film BLUE VINYL, directed by Judith Helfand
& Daniel B. Gold. Her short comedy BAR TALK has screened at over 40 film festivals
worldwide. Cheryl recently finished co-directing the short documentary A GOOD
UPLIFT, a light-hearted glimpse into a Lower East Side lingerie shop, which will
screen at the Full Frame Documentary Festival in April. Ms. Furjanic is currently
in production on SYNC OR SWIM, a full-length documentary about the United States
Synchronized Swimming team's journey to the 2004 Olympics. Cheryl holds a BFA
in film production from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. |
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| ALEXIS FISH (Producer) recently produced a short film for Fox Searchlab
and is currently producing two short films that should be ready for the 2004 film
festival circuit. This past year she line produced the Sundance 2003 award-winning
feature Quattro Noza and was a coordination producer on A&E's: Biography on
Wall Street. She was also a supervising producer on D.E.B.S. which screened at
both Sundance and Berlin in 2003. Several years after graduating from Smith College
having majored in political science, she began her work in film as product placement
supervisor on Todd Solondz's STORYTELLING. She has also worked on various documentary
projects including HBO's VAGINA MONOLOGUES and the HBO documentary NUDE ADRIFT,
the sequel to HBO's NAKED STATES. She served as assistant outreach coordinator
on the ITVS documentary OUR HOUSE: KIDS WITH LESBIAN AND GAY PARENTS. Alexis was
coordinator and contributing editor of an online Outreach Toolkit, co-produced
by Mediarights.org, Working Films and AIVF. |
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