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The Production Team

Stefan Schaefer (Director/Producer/Editor)

Stefan was born in Boston, spent his childhood in Sussex, England and his adolescent years in Detroit and New York. In 1994 he graduated from Wesleyan University, with degrees in political theory and theater. Following a year and a half in Germany - where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar and worked as a journalist - he returned to New York and founded Cicala Filmworks with two partners.

Over the years he has written, directed and produced documentaries, TV commercials and promotional videos for clients such as the Guggenheim Museum, The New York Yankees, and the New York City Department of Education. In May 2005 he completed the feature film CONFESS, his debut as a writer/director. The film premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival and was picked up for distribution by New Films International and Image Entertainment. Recent awards include: Best Screenwriter at the Hamptons Film Festival, Grand Prize in Digital Filmmaking from Panasonic and Apple, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Screenwriting, and selection to attend the Talent Campus at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Diane Crespo (Producer)

Diane has worked in New York independent film for the last ten years. In that time she has produced and directed numerous music videos and commercials for clients such as 1-800 Flowers, Virgin Records and 97.9 La Mega. Documentary credits include: TAKING A RISK IN EDUCATION, a two-part film on educational reform; and RISE TO THE CHALLENGE, a three-part documentary on successful parenting created for the College Board. Originally from a theatre background, Diane received a B.A. from Roger Williams College, and studied at the graduate level at the London School of Dramatic Arts.

Williams Cole (Archival Producer)

Williams recently completed producing GIULIANI TIME, a feature documentary that premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and is scheduled for national theatrical release from the Landmark theater chain in 2006. Before GIULIANI TIME, Williams worked on a variety of network, cable and independent documentary film productions for CBS Eye on People, A and E/The History Channel, Nick Broomfield, Stephanie Black and Estela Bravo, as well as field produced at the network newsmagazine Fox Files. He graduated from Columbia University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics, where he earned an MSc in Media and Communications while working in the BBC Documentaries Department with Nick Fraser. He is currently in pre-production on SHOW ME, a documentary being produced with Cicala Filmworks.

Williams is also a widely published freelance writer whose work has been seen in Harper, The Village Voice, In These Times, Extra!, Dox, Black Book and other publications. He is also a founding editor and writer for The Brooklyn Rail.

Mark Gorton (Co-Producer)

Mark is the founder of The Opening Planning Project and Lime Wire LLC, as well as Managing Director and the owner of Tower Research Capital LLC. As an undergraduate at Yale University, Mark studied electrical engineering and was graduated magna cum laude. He then earned a Masters degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University. After Stanford, Mark worked as an electrical engineer for Martin Marietta (now part of Lockheed Martin) where he specialized in digital signal processing and speech recognition. He created modems for the Air Force which were designed to perform in the presence of enemy jamming signals on the electronic battlefield of the future. This experience helped hone the mathematical and computer skills which have made the development of his current trading methodologies possible. From 1991-1993, Mark earned an MBA at Harvard. Mark then joined Credit Suisse First Boston where he worked as a trader in the fixed income proprietary-trading department from 1993-1998. Mark was the most profitable and most consistently profitable trader in his group.

Paul Steely White (Consulting Producer)

Paul Steely White is the Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives, the leading local bicycle, pedestrian and transportation reform group in the United States. Paul is an internationally known author and lecturer on bicycling, walking and transportation reform. Paul is quoted frequently on these issues by the local and national news media and has appeared frequently in local, national, and international media. He has also appeared in publications such as The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, and the New York Observer. Paul is frequently invited to speak on pedestrian safety, traffic calming and cycling issues by transportation and community organizations, including the Transportation Research Board (TRB). Paul has a degree in Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Masters Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Montana in Missoula. Before joining Transportation Alternatives in April 2003, Paul served as Regional Director for the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, a non-profit group based in New York City.

Featured Organizations

transalt.org - Transportation Alternatives is your advocate for cycling, walking and environmentally-sensible transportation.

openplans.org - The Open Planning Project is dedicated to enhancing citizen and public interest group participation in community planning processes through technology

pps.org - Project for Public Spaces is dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities

ssbx.org - Sustainable South Bronx is dedicated to implementing sustainable development projects for the South Bronx

timessquarenyc.org - Times Square Alliance

nycp.org - Partnership for New York City

itdp.org - Institute for Transportation and Development Policy promotes environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation worldwide.

ecoplan.org - The Commons is an Open Society Sustainability  Initiative

gehlarchitects.dk - Gehl Architects are urban quality consultants in Copenhagen, Denmark

c-london.co.uk - Central London Partnership

transport2000.org.uk - Transport 2000 is a UK-based advocate for sustainable transport

livingstreets.org.uk - Living Streets is a UK-based advocate for safe, vibrant and healthy streets

newmobility.org - An open international platform for critical discussion, exchanges of materials and views, and diverse forms of cross-border collaboration on the challenging, necessarily conflicted topic of "sustainable transportation and social justice"