(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.
(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..
(Editor) 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 studiedÜfilm at Ryerson University and was an Editor Resident at Norman Jewison's
Canadian Film Centre.
(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.
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(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.
(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.
(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.
(Associate Producer) will have her bio posted shortly.