Still Doing It The Intimate Lives of Women over 60

Deirdre Fishel has been writing and directing documentaries and dramas for 20 years now; almost all centering on women's lives. Her life's goal is to create complex, realistic portraits of women that challenge mainstream stereotypes and work to improve women's lives. Deirdre started her career at WNYC-TV where she produced a half-hour program on women community organizers working to save the South Bronx. She went on to write and direct SEPARATE SKIN, an award-winning drama that was distributed by Women Make Movies. Her dramatic feature film, RISK, premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and had a theatrical, as well as a wide video and international release. She went on to direct the documentary STILL DOING IT which premiered at SXSW and has been broadcast in fifteen countries worldwide and SPERM DONOR X:A Different Conception (2010) which premiered at Women Documenting Life and i being distributed by New Day Films. In 1995, Deirdre started Mind's Eye Productions dedicated to producing cutting edge educational films. DEALING WITH TEEN DATING ABUSE: Matters Of Choice received a CINE Golden Eagle. She produced an on-link doc SUICIDE ON CAMPUS in conjunction with New York Times Magazine and it lives permanently on their site. Her latest project is The Boy Game (theboygame.org), a transmedia project, video and interactive website, that explores bullying among boys through the lens of this culture's hyper masculine norms. Deirdre attended the American Film Institute's master's directing program and Brown University. She is on the faculty of the New School University. She lives in Brooklyn with her daughters Lucia and Maeve

Diana Holtzberg is Vice President of Films Transit International, a leading worldwide documentary film sales company with a catalogue of highly acclaimed films, many of which have won Grand Jury and Audience Awards at preeminent film festivals throughout the world as well as Emmys, Peabodys, duPonts, BAFTA’s, and Oscars. She has been working for Films Transit since 2001. Diana also executive produces and acts as creative producer / consultant on a select number of film projects each year. Examples: BERT STERN: ORIGINAL MADMAN, THE ART OF FAILURE - for which she won an Emmy Award in 2009 in the Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming category, GENIUS WITHIN: The Inner Life Of Glen Gould, END OF THE CENTURY: THE STORY OF THE RAMONES, IMAGINARY WITNESS: Hollywood and the Holocaust, THE DICTATOR HUNTER, HELD HOSTAGE IN COLOMBIA, PUCKER UP: The Fine Art of Whistling, LOVING AND CHEATING and STILL DOING IT: The Intimate Lives Of Women Over 65. Diana conducts film workshops throughout the world and has been on panels at the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, IDFA, Sunnyside of the Doc, NYON, Guadalajara, Full Frame, Hot Docs, Galway Film Festival, and Encounters in South Africa. She is on the Documentary Committee at the Paley Center for Media. Diana began her career at SPIN Magazine and then worked at Inc. Magazine and Details Magazine before moving into film. During this time she produced groundbreaking TV specials for MTV (while at SPIN) and Fox Sports Network (while at DETAILS). She is the co-author of three widely read documentary industry articles: The Current State of the International Marketplace For Documentary Films (for the IFP), Feeling Festive: Strategies for Taking Your Film on the Festival Circuit, and Distribution To The Max (both for International Documentary Magazine). Diana wrote and edited numerous articles while a contributing writer and editor for the now defunct POWER Magazine, and is the credited ghostwriter of The Warrior Diet (Dragondoor, 2002). She received a Bachelor of Arts from George Washington University and a Certificate in Film from New York University.