Director/Producer: Faye Lederman holds an MJ in documentary film from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism where she studied with Jon Else, and a BA from Northwestern University in American Studies. After living in Israel as Dorot Fellow, she served as outreach and education coordinator for Judith Helfand, bringing A Healthy Baby Girl to the student and Jewish communities. Following the premiere of her first film, Women of the Wall, Faye launched a national outreach and education plan, which included over 100 community outreach screenings. The film screened widely at festivals including the Margaret Mead and Doubletake Documentary Festivals, and at the New York, San Francisco and Toronto Jewish film festivals. Faye is a member of New Day Films, a self-distribution cooperative of activist filmmakers. She recently completed The New Old Country, a film about nostalgia and history on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and A Good Uplift, a comedic short documentary about a bra shop run by Hasidic Jews. Faye’s work has been supported by organizations including the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the NY State Council on the Arts, The Funding Exchange/Paul Robeson Fund, The Sister Fund, The Pacific Pioneer Fund, and the Fleischacker Foundation.

Director/Producer: Cheryl Furjanic is an award winning documentary filmmaker currently teaching video production in the Culture and Media Program in NYU’s Department of Anthropology. She holds a BFA in film production from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Her short comic documentary DIMASSIMO TO THE RESCUE was screened in the New Filmmakers Series at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Her documentary TAKE THIS HAMMER, a study of the traditions of American work songs through the eyes of legendary folk singer Pete Seeger, screened at the 1998 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival and was awarded a Silver Apple in 1999 from the National Educational Media Network. Cheryl worked as associate producer on the documentary feature film BLUE VINYL, directed by Judith Helfand & Daniel B. Gold. Cheryl's narrative short comedy BAR TALK, completed in 2002, has screened at over 40 film festivals worldwide. Ms. Furjanic is currently in pre-production on SYNC OR SWIM, a full-length documentary about the journey of the United States Synchronized Swimming team to the 2004 Olympics.

Director/Producer: Eve Lederman has been a freelance writer in New York City for ten years and is the author of three business books and numerous articles. She has received grants from the Carnegie Fund for Authors, the Penn American Center, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Her humorous memoir Letters From My Sister will be published early next year. She has discussed her work on Good Day New York and WCBS radio and has guest lectured at several universities including SUNY Brockport and Manhattan Community College. Eve received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1990.