Cari Lutz - Producer/Director/Director of Photography - carilutz@earthlink.net

Cari Lutz is an American filmmaker and photographer. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a double major in Film Studies and French, and spent her senior year in Paris. For the past ten years she has worked primarily behind the camera on commercials, episodic television, and documentaries. Safe Sex: Girl Chat was her first documentary as Producer/Director and it is currently being used by Planned Parenthood, universities, high schools and community centers across the country. It also won the Platinum Documentary Award for Educational Video/Young Adults at WorldFest Houston in April 2001. "Natural Leaders Preventing Violence is my current project and reflects my on-going interest in creating a safer and healthier social milieu for our nation's youth by providing them with educational material with which they can relate. By cultivating a close relationship with Windy Warren and the Impact Plus Leadership students, this documentary has a unique opportunity to chronicle their achievements as the youth of tomorrow empower themselves and make a difference on campus and in the community."


Christian White - Editor/Producer - organicfire@yahoo.com

Christian White lives in Los Angeles and is a multi-talented individual involved with numerous film and television projects. He has worked on a variety of award-winning projects including documentaries, music videos, ads, promotions, short films & performance art. In 1994 he started his own production company & enjoys collaborating in all forms of media, paying special attention to projects that explore, inform, and uplift the human spirit.


Joan McCraw/MINT- Development Consultant/Advisor - mintjmc@aol.com

Joan McCraw is a creative catalyst, builder, rainmaker and veteran media executive. In partnership with Akiko Onaka, creative director & designer, she founded MINT, a brand development and renewal resource, offering strategic direction, positioning, insights and ideas. In a publishing career spanning over 20 years, she was recognized as one of the magazine industry's leading brand strategists spearheading the advance a number of titles representing some of the nation's most successful media enterprises -- National Geographic, USA Today, TV Guide & Los Angeles Magazine. She was named Publisher of the Year in 1992 and has received a number of top creative awards including 2 CLIOs for Best Business/Advertising Trade Campaign, as well as a dozen Addys/Andys.

Joan/MINT is engaged in securing finishing funds, national/international airtime and an afterlife (education/outreach) for Natural Leaders Preventing Violence, the one hour documentary.


Barry Burchell - Associate Producer - baz@earthlink.net

For the past 15 years Barry Burchell has gathered a wide range of experience in a number of entertainment and media related projects, most recently working with several successful Internet companies. Barry has worked both in London and Los Angeles as a freelance producer and researcher on a number of movie, television and documentary projects for the BBC, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. Credits include "In Search of DA Cat" the search for legendary Malibu surfer Micky Dora, and "The Net," a series for the BBC looking at the internet and its affects on culture and society.


BMOTION - Design - www.bmotion.com

Bmotion Design is an interactive design firm specializing in helping companies plan for and execute web sites, cd-roms, video and multimedia presentations. Located in Los Angeles, Bmotion Design services many industries with an emphasis on the museum and education market. Some Bmotion clients are the Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the California African-American Museum and the Japanese American National Museum. Work for these clients included web development, online education production, collections database design and project management. In all cases, Bmotion assessed the issues, created a masterplan and executed to budget and schedule.


Jason Lutz - Web Production - jasonmlutz@yahoo.com

Jason Lutz is a web developer/designer living and working in St. Louis, Mo. He has worked on a variety of web sites and is now working as Electronic News Editor for Washington University in St. Louis.


Metro Encoding - Video Encoding

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