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Cast & Crew
MARYANN BRESCHARD
PRODUCER, DIRECTOR,
NARRATOR
Prior to directing and appearing in
Running in High Heels,
Maryann
spent 17 years
working behind the scenes in film, television and home video
distribution. She
began her career working at the now-defunct Bottom Line nightclub where
she met and watched the big and small players of the music business for
four years while she was earning her degree
in Film and Television from New York University's Tisch
School of the Arts. She began her formal
career at the William Morris
Agency. She
also ran the
east coast Post-Production departments of
WarnerVision Entertainment, a division of Time Warner and BMG
Video and BMG Independents, the indie film arm
of BMG Entertainment.
Most recently, she
served as an Executive Producer for Wellspring Media where she produced
over 500 DVDs including Akira Kurosawa’s Ran, Russian Ark,
R.W.
Fassbinder’s and the
Marriage of Maria
Braunthe
Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
Her work included interviews with filmmakers such as Wim Wenders, John
Woo, Edward Yang, and Catherine Breillat just to name a few.
Frustrated and limited by the miniscule budgets
allocated
to the arthouse DVDs she produced, Maryann still was inspired by
working
with such great filmmakers. They encouraged her to create
something strictly on her own terms and Running in High Heels
is the result
of that encouragement. For more information about
Maryann, visit her
website.
Cast
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY
Phyllis
Schlafly has been a
national leader of
the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 19
64
book, A Choice Not An
Echo.
She has been a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when she
started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle
Forum. Mrs. Schlafly's monthly newsletter called The Phyllis
Schlafly Report is now in its 38th year. Her syndicated column appears
in 100 newspapers, her radio commentaries are heard daily on 460
stations, and her radio talk show on education called "Phyllis Schlafly
Live" is heard weekly on 45 stations. Both can be heard on the
internet. Mrs. Schlafly is the author or editor of
20 books
on subjects as varied as family and
feminism. Mrs.
Schlafly is a lawyer and served as a member of the Commission on the
Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 1985-1991, appointed by
President Reagan. She has testified before more than 50 Congressional
and State Legislative committees on constitutional, national defense,
and family issues. Mrs. Schlafly is a Phi Beta
Kappa
graduate of Washington University, received her J.D. from Washington
University Law School, and received her Master's in Political Science
from Harvard University.
ELEANOR SMEAL
Eleanor
Smeal is the President of the Feminist
Majority Foundation. FMF, which was founded in 1987, is a
cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive
health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and
action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. The
organization believes that feminists - both women and men, girls and
boys - are the majority, but this majority must be
empowered. FMF's research and action programs focus
on
advancing the legal, social and political equality of women with men,
countering the backlash to women's advancement, and recruiting and
training young feminists to encourage future leadership for the
feminist movement in the United States. To carry out these
aims,
FMF engages in research and public policy development, public education
programs, grassroots organizing projects, leadership training and
development programs, and participates in and organizes forums on
issues of women's equality and empowerment. Its sister organization,
the Feminist Majority, engages in lobbying and other direct political
action, pursuing equality between women and men through legislative
avenues.
SHERRYE HENRY
Sherrye
Henry,
author of the Deep
Divide,
is a congressional aide for Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New
York. Previously, Henry served as
an administrator of the
U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business
Ownership. She's also an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and continues
to be active in environmental and family causes on Long Island, where
she was a candidate for the State
Senate.
ROSALIND WISEMAN
Rosalind
Wiseman co-founded The
Empower Program in
1994 to empower youth to stop the culture of violence. Reaching over
10,000 youth and educators each year, Empower recognizes that children
live within a culture where they are socialized to be perpetrators,
bystanders, or targets of violence. Empower's revolutionary approach
teaches boys and girls to transform their silence into effective
action. Rosalind is the author of Queen Bees and Wannabes:
Helping
Your
Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of
Adolescence
(Crown, May 2002), which is in its 25th printing. In addition to two
appearances on the New York Times bestseller list, Wiseman’s
book has
been adapted into the motion picture, “Mean
Girls.”
Rosalind speaks throughout the world at universities, corporations,
schools, and associations including the American Association of
University Women, Texas Governor's Conference on Women, Alliance of
Girls Schools, Australasia, the National Crime Prevention Conference,
the Young Presidents Organization, the Congressional Youth Leadership
Conference, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the
National Football League.
MYRNA BLYTH
Myrna
Blyth,
author
of Spin Sisters,
was the editor-in-chief of Ladies' Home Journal from 1981 to 2002 and
also in charge of the business
side of the magazine for more than a
dozen years. She was also founding editor-in-chief and
publishing
director of MORE magazine. Ms.
Blyth
was also an official American delegate for the UN Fourth World
Conference on Women in Beijing. She is currently a
Commissioner on the President’s Commission on White House
Fellows and a
member of the Advisory Committee for the Office of Research in
Women’s
Health at the National
Institutes of Health.
HEIDI HARTMANN, PhD
Dr.
Heidi
Hartmann founded Institute for Women's Policy Research in
1987 to meet the need for women-centered, policy-oriented
research. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College and
M.Phil and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Yale University. In 1994,
she
was the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship award. Commonly
referred to as the "genius grant," this fellowship was awarded to
recognize her pioneering work in the field of women and economics. At
IWPR, Dr. Hartmann has co-authored several reports including
Unnecessary Losses: Costs to Americans of the Lack of Family
and Medical Leave; Who Needs a Family Wage?: The Implications of
Low-Wage Work for Family Well-Being; Women's
Access to Health
Insurance, Combining Work and Welfare: An Alternative Anti-Poverty
Strategy and The Impact of Social Security Reform on Women. Before
founding IWPR, she taught at Rutgers University and the New School for
Social Research and worked at the National Academy of Sciences and the
US Commission on Civil Rights. Dr. Hartmann is originally from Toms
River, New Jersey.
NANCY PFOTENHAUER
Nancy
Mitchell Pfotenhauer joined the
Independent Women's Forum in 2001 from Koch Industries, where she was
director
of the Washington, D.C., office.
Koch Industries is the second
largest privately held company in the United
States. A
veteran television and radio commentator, she advocates for free market
policy solutions to problems facing the nation. Her television and
cable appearances include segments on ABC, NBC, CNN, CNBC, FOX and PBS.
In 2004, Washingtonian magazine named her one of the most important
conservative leaders in the nation's capital. In 1994, she appeared on
the cover of the National Journal, which referred to her as one of the
District of Columbia's rising stars. Additionally, Pfotenhauer has been
featured in Newsweek, George, The Wall Street Journal, and The
Washington Post and The Washington Times. Most recently, she
served as an economic advisor to John McCain during his Presidential
bid.
BETTY SPENCE
Betty
Spence became President of The National Association for Female
Executives (NAFE) in 2001. From 1994-1999 at Catalyst, a non-profit
committed to the advancement of women, Spence served as VP of
communications and publications. She wrote
Be Your Own Mentor (2001),
a book on propelling your own advancement. In addition, she crafted
speeches for the president and oversaw the editing and publication of
two other books, Advancing Women in Business: Best Practices from the
Corporate Leaders (1998) and Creating Women's Networks (1999). Spence
cut her PR teeth at Hill and Knowlton in media relations, speech
writing, and crisis counseling. Her career also included a stint at
Chief Executive magazine and work as a contributing writer to the Los
Angeles Times and The Christian Science Monitor. She holds a Ph.D. in
English literature and honed her writing skills teaching literature,
writing, and film studies at college and high school levels.
EMILY CSENDES
STATE SENATE
CANDIDATE, NEW YORK'S 29TH DISTRICT
Emily Csendes earned her Bachelors cum
laude in
Economics from Wellesley College and her M.B.A. in Finance from New
York University amd enjoyed a successful career in Merrill Lynch's
NASDAQ trading department. Like many New Yorkers, September
11th
changed Emily’s life. Watching the attack on the
World Trade
Center across the street from her office changed her
priorities.
Emily gave up her successful finance job to become a public school
teacher in Harlem and decided to engage in politics and run for public
office.
STEPHEN M. EVANS III
EMILY'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER
Before becoming active in politics,
Stephen M. Evans
III, worked on
numerous films, television shows, mini-series, and corporate training
films and served
as a Camera and Production Assistant on independent films such as
"trick" and "Hamlet". A native of Dallas, Texas,
Stephen
was educated at Southern Methodist University. Just
prior
to managing Emily's run for New York State Senate, Stephen mounted his
own campaign for New York City's 3rd City Council
District. He currently serves as
Vice-President of
The TR Group.
Crew
MORGAN-WILLIAM
TURNER
EDITOR
Morgan-William
Turner has
already been recognized in the New York DVD
community
as a prodigy-of-the-digital-trades. He was hired by
Metropolis
DVD (now M1 Digital, a
division of Sterling Sound) in 2002 while still a student in Sheridan
College’s Media Arts Program in Toronto. There
Turner cut
features for bands such as Sum41, Nickelback, Slipknot, Cesaria Evora
and most recently the Rolling Stones and also produced
shoots and managed the early stages of project planning and
proposals.
He has also provided editorial services for clients like Dancing
Diablo Studio and Magnetic Laboratorium. In
addition to
editing Running in
High Heels,
Turner
is currently an editor for Scholastic’s
animated series produced for PBS, Maya
and Miguel.
GREG
LAPORTA COMPOSER
Greg
Laporta has spent the last four
years working
on the music crew of
two-time Academy Award winning composer, Howard
Shore. Laporta’s
cinematic music credits include Panic
Room, the Score, Gangs of New York, Spider, the Lord of the Rings
trilogy, the
Aviator,
and
A History of
Violence
and King
Kong.
In
addition, Greg has scored various television documentary
programming, most recently Shark Mountain which aired on
PBS’s Nature
series.
MANAHI
TABER-KEWENE DIRECTOR
OF PHOTOGRAPHY
A
native of New Zealand, Manahi
Taber-Kewene studied
film production under the guidance of the Emmy award-winning filmmaker,
Larry Engel, after spending several years honing his expertise in
photography and production in the advertising industry. In
addition, Taber-Kewene was part of the editing team for Notorious
Pictures' feature documentary, At
The Green Line. Taber-Kewene’s work
also includes
directing and producing two documentary shorts, Bboy and We Lift Our
Voices,
and he is also editor for an upcoming Discovery Channel documentary
shot in Bolivia. He is a graduate of the Film
Program at
Columbia University.
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR AND FILMMAKER
MARYANN BRESCHARD
MARYANN
BRESCHARD is a writer, producer and director. She
is best known for her feature documentary, Running in High Heels,
which followed the story of a political aspirant akin to Sarah Palin -
well before Sarah
Palin exploded onto the
national stage.
The film explores the behaviors and criterias women use in
both
supporting and criticizing
other women and how
those affect
their
current political and economic state. It argues that women
do
not need to rise up but to
instead wake up and free themselves from
stereotypes -- but not their femininity! Running
in High Heels premiered
in 2006
and continues to play on
college campuses across the country.
Her
book, American
Catfight: Political Wisdom for Women &
Other Thoughts Towards Feminine Statecraft for the 21st Century,
continues
the discussion of women's true will to independence, equality and power
by provoking
with humor habitual stances and conditioned thinking.
As
with Running
in High Heels,
it charms women to change their thinking and push
useless
paradigms aside by turning widely-held presumptions upside down.
Maryann was
born
in the harbor town of Port Jefferson, NY. Her fifth
great-grandfather was Louis-Francois, the Count of Achun, for
whom the
French Revolution did not work out so well. Upon
arriving
in America afterwards, the newly untitled Breschards became half of
the Breschard & Pepin Circus which is widely believed
to be
the first circus in the United States. In
1806, the
Breschard family founded the oldest theatre in America, the Walnut Street
Theatre,
which still operates today. During the venue's
early era,
the now-famous Barrymores were stagehands in the employ of the
Breschards...but as with the Revolution, things for the family went
awry... Maryann, untitled and happy to have her head, currently resides
in New
York City.
maryannbreschard.com
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