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.
 
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.