Judith Estrine is a veteran of three NYC marathons and at age 64 is training for her fourth. Judith is an award-winning playwright, book editor and author. Her play, She & He won First Place in the Nantucket Short Play Competition and was published. It was adapted to film, starring Tony Award nominee Anita Gillette. Ghost Mommy was a winner at the National Renaissance League’s “Out On The Edge” Festival. Pinochle and Roses was shortlisted at the prestigious Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. For twelve years she was executive editor to Pulitzer Prizewinning author Robert N. Butler, and edited his most recent book, The Longevity Revolution. She is co-author of Midlife: A Manual (Element Books), published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Latin America.
Donna Guthrie is the award winning author of 23 books for children, including The Witch Who Lives Down The Hall, which was included in the 1985 School Library Journal Best Books for Children. In 2006 she created an interactive on-line site for children, Meet Me At The Corner: Virtual Field Trips for Kids, which encourages individual expression and participation through video submissions from children worldwide. Her stage plays include Sweet Hour of Prayer, a one-act play about women's friendship; The Wedding Trunk, a one-act play inspired by the letters and diaries of the women who settled the West, and The Missing Zygote is a fun glance back from 1946 to 2006 that mixed social commentary with wry humor. She is co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival and The Six Women Playwriting Festival, both of which are held each year in Colorado Springs, Colorado. To celebrate her 50th birthday Donna ran her first marathon in Colorado Springs.
Trish Dalton is an independent documentary filmmaker and producer. Her films, 34x25x36 (directed by Jesse Epstein and selected by many festivals), The Farm Sancutary (made with MJ Watkins and winner of the 2007 Media that Matters ‘Good Food’ award), Tiffany's Story (made with GEMS and screened at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival), and Bordering on Treason(an OHMS Media Production) share stories of people and their experiences with body image, animal rights, sexual exploitation, and war. In addition to making documentaries, Dalton has produced and/or coordinated over 60 videos for television, web, commercial, and non-profit clients. Dalton studied documentary film at New York University
MJ Watkins, Producer and Editor
M.J. Watkins began a digital production company, to combine her creative skills in digital video, web and design. Fly-Up Media has produced short documentaries, instructional, funding and personal event videos. Watkins has received the Spontaneous Combustion award for the music video Red Riding Hood, a PBS Honorable Mention for her short Goosebumps and the 2007 Media That Matters Good Food Award for The Farm Sanctuary. www.flyupmedia.com
Matt Kohn, Cinematographer
His first feature film Call it Democracy premiered at the Palm Springs Film Festival. In 2007, Matt completed Site Specific: The Legacy of Regional Modernism, a 22-minute investigation of architect Paul Rudolph and the relevance of his early sustainable designs to current green construction. Recently completed is the fiction short Freedom Isn't Free about the Iraq war and featuring Alexandria Wailes (Law and Order, Mother Courage with Meryl Streep). Kohn’s second feature documentary, Five Days at Tonic uses the final days of the experimental haven as a window into the history of avant-garde music on the Lower East Side. Matt Kohn has BA in Politics, Film and Feminist Political Theory from Brandeis University.