THERESE SHECHTER (Director/Co-Producer/Videographer) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, artist and public speaker whose films have screened on television, at film festivals and on college campuses all over the world. Her first feature, I Was A Teenage Feminist, which premiered in New York in 2005 recently won Best Film at the Jewish Women's Film Festival (NCJW New York section) and was given a Special Mention at the Karachi Film Festival in Pakistan. Ms. Shechter also recently completed a documentary short entitled How I Learned to Speak Turkish which won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the Atlanta Film Festival.

After attending Columbia College Film School in Chicago, Ms. Shechter moved to New York to work for Robert De Niro's production company Tribeca Films. She worked with Macky Alston on his documentary Questioning Faith, which aired on HBO in Spring 2002, and has coordinated outreach events for PBS's Project Islam. She has also worked at the Sundance Film Festival since 2001.

Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Ms. Shechter was a journalist and graphic designer at the Chicago Tribune where, in her capacity as Associate Graphics and Design Editor, she contributed visual direction to several Pulitzer Prize-winning story packages. She also writes about film and women's issues and works as a freelance art director for a variety of publications.

Ms. Shechter is a recipient of a 2002 Project:Involve Trainee Fellowship (for emerging filmmakers) from IFP New York and was selected to take part in Film/Video Arts' Artist/Mentor Workshop of 2004. Her production company Trixie Films is based in New York. She brings a journalist's inquiring mind and an artist's creative eye to this film project.

STEPHANIE ST. PIERRE(Co-Producer) has worked for 20 years in the field of children's publishing as an author, creative and licensing consultant and publishing executive. Her last position in the industry was a Publishing Director of CTW Books, a joint venture of Random House Children's Publishing, Inc. and Children's Television Workshop. A prolific author, Ms. St. Pierre has published hundreds of books for children of all ages. Her book "What To Do When A Parent Is Out Of Work" was an ALA Notable Book in 1990.

St. Pierre is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary in New York City and received the Master's of Divinity degree in 2002. She recently began studying for her Master's in Public Health at Columbia University. The focus of her work is in theology and environmental health from a postmodern eco-feminist perspective.She is currently developing a documentary feature on sex education for the new millennium aimed at teenagers and college students exploring various issues in the area of reproductive technology.

Since May 2002, St. Pierre has been involved in the 9/11 recovery efforts as a program director at Safe Horizon, a victim services organization in New York City. She has recently worked as an editorial consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank on a project to end domestic violence in the Caribbean..

is a Toronto-based editor originally from Nova Scotia. For the past seventeen years she has been editing documentaries (Things That Move, Meet the Sumdees) and fiction films (Outlaws of Missouri, Fairytales and Pornography), and she has collaborated with award-winning filmmakers Richard Fung (Sea in the Blood) and Therese Shechter (I Was A Teenage Feminist). Ms. Larsen is a past member of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto and served on the board of Charles Street Video. She studied†film at Ryerson University and was an Editor Resident at Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre.

KRISTIN BARLOW(Editor) most recently worked with Kate Davis as co-editor of a one-hour documentary, The Exonerated, aired as part of an A & E's Investigative Reports series. She worked with documentary filmmakers such as Robert Gardner, Richard Rogers and Ross McElwee at Harvard's Film Study Center to design and develop an extensive website showcasing their films and the center. Barlow is also editor for Dancing on Eggs, a work-in-progress documentary about egg donors. Barlow is a graduate of Harvard University where she received a BA in Social Anthropology in addition to her studies in film and video, computer science and literature.

NANCY ROTH(Consulting Producer) is currently Co-Executive Director of GreenHouse Pictures. Nancy joined Mixed Greens Documentaries in 2000 and co-produced Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz, which had its broadcast premiere on the Independent Lens Series on PBS in October 2003.  She was the Supervising Producer for Mixed Greens on three documentaries, Slumming It: Myth & Culture on the Bowery, 156 Rivington, which premiered on the Sundance Channel in October 2003, and The Federation of Black Cowboys.   Prior to joining Mixed Greens, Nancy Co-Produced Greener Grass: Cuba, Baseball and the United States, which was produced in association with ITVS and Thirteen/WNET, and received the Banff Rockie Award in 2001.  Prior to this Nancy worked in feature film and commercial production for over ten years.

ANGELA MARTENEZ(Consulting Producer) has been active in the development of fundraising strategy and materials for I Was A Teenage Feminist. Following an early career in grassroots adult education, she has worked in film and video for nearly a decade, from production to fundraising.  Past projects include features such as Macky Alston's Questioning Faith, (2002) broadcast on HBO/Cinemax as well as industrials for IBM and commercials for Optimum Online and BBC-America. She is currently associate producer on The History Channel's popular Deep Sea Detectives series while beginning production on an independent documentary feature.

ELLEN KO (Associate Producer) is a writer and director based in Boston. Her most recent project is a video short entitled All Girl Monster Movie. She currently works for Boston Community Television and has done production work for NBC, Castlerock Entertainment and She Television (Japan). In addition, she has worked for Miramax's publicity department and at the Sundance International Film Festival. Her collaborative video and live performance piece Pooloop has been exhibited at The Kitchen in New York. Ko is a graduate of Oberlin College where she was a member of the Film Makers' Co-op.

MALINDA FOY (Associate Producer) will have her bio posted shortly.