Deirdre Fishel
Deirdre Fishel has been writing and directing documentaries and dramas for 20 years now. Her life's goal is to create complex, powerful portraits that challenge mainstream stereotypes and work to improve people's lives. She started her career at WNYC-TV where she produced a 1/2 hour program on women community organizers working to save the South Bronx. She went on to write and direct two award-winning dramas which were distributed by WOMEN MAKE MOVIES and a full length documentary, THE BEST OF BOTH, about working mothers. Her dramatic feature film, RISK, premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and had a theatrical as well as wide video and international release. Her breakthrough 2004 documentary STILL DOING IT:The Intimate Lives of Women Over 65 is being distributed internationally by Films Transit International and educationally by New Day Films. She is writing a book on the vibrancy of women over 60, with producer Diana Holtzberg, to be published by Avery, a division of Penguin books, in 2007.

In 1995 Deirdre started Mind's Eye Productions designed to create innovative educational tools She has worked on cutting edge projects about teen dating violence, separatism on college campuses and women and depression in the African American community. She has worked with clients such as Learning Through An Expanded Arts Program (LEAP), The Shadow Box Theatre, Rutgers University, University of Medicine and Dentistry ot NJ, the National Council of Jewish Women, Spence-Chapin Family Services, the Enterprise Foundation and the Magic Johnson Foundation.

Deirdre went to the American Film Institute's directing program and Brown University. She is currently on the faculty of The New School.

Marci Shulman Gruber
Marci Shulman Gruber joined Mind's Eye Productions in 2002 bringing with her a wide and varied background in film and video. She began her career at WWOR-Channel 9 and, subsequently, Grey Advertising before joining Miles Associates, a film and video company, where she worked for eight years in every capacity of production from Project Manager and Producer to Client Liason to Executive Producer. At Miles, Marci was involved in the development and production of countless corporate films, videos, CD ROMS, live shows, radio programs and image pieces for such major corporations as AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Sony, MONY, Prudential, AstraZeneca, and Smith Barney.

As a freelance producer, Marci has worked with clients such as Intelsat, Janssen, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis for whom she has planned numerous international and domestic meetings and created innovative convention marketing programs. Selected producing credits also include EL-IDOL, a musical/video hour-long show for Novartis Pharmaceutical and the PFIZER ARTISTS GALLERY, an international art show that has toured Europe and the United States.

Since teaming with Deirdre, Marci has produced MATTERS OF CHOICE, a video about teen dating violence for the National Council of Jewish Women as well as pieces for Spence-Chapin Family Services and the University Medical and Dental School of New Jersey.

Marci is a graduate of Ithaca College and holds a certificate in Television studies from the New School. She is past-president of the Women's Theatre Company Board of Directors, and is currently a member of New York Women in Film and Television, Women in Development and Women in Communications.