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THE FILMMAKERS

Lexi LebanLexi Leban (Producer / Director / Cinematographer) is an independent filmmaker and educator. Her short films, More than a Paycheck, Her Tattoo, labor and Tic Toc Bio Clock have screened at film festivals at home and abroad, from Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Mill Valley Film Festival to the Berlin International Film Festival, as well as online at PopcornQ.com. She was the Co-producer of Mama Wuhunzi, a feature documentary about women building wheelchairs for use in developing countries. Selected screenings include the Tribeca Film Center and public television broadcast. Ms. Leban has an MFA in film production from San Francisco State University and is the Department Coordinator of the Digital Motion Picture Program at Cogswell College in Silicon Valley.

Lidia SzajkoLidia Szajko (Producer / Director / Cinematographer) is an independent filmmaker and film educator whose works have screened on public television and at festivals internationally. Her films, which explore social and human rights issues, and the experiences of people living in transition, have won awards such as the Isabella Liddel Art Award for Most Promising Woman Filmmaker at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Award of Merit at Superfest XVIII, and International Media Festival on Disabilities in Berkeley, and the People's Choice at the Humboldt Film and Video Festival. Ms. Szajko is Chair of the Film Production Department at City College of San Francisco. She was appointed to the San Francisco Film Commission in 2001.

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