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Laurie Little has an MFA in film and video from Columbia College Chicago. She founded the production company Luminist Films in 1997 with partner Jack Hewings and has been producing and directing documentaries, short narratives and music videos for over ten years. She co-directed her first feature, A Day On The Force: Women's Professional Tackle Football, in 2003. Her featurette, Lonewolf, premiered in Chicago in November of 2002. God's Eye, a Dramatic Narrative she directed for Producer Caroline Brandes, won the top prize for a student film at the Berlin International Non-Commercial Film Festival in 2001. She currently works as an adjunct professor at Columbia. Jack Hewings is a producer and sound designer. He has worked with Luminist films productions since 1999. Caroline Brandes, is a producer and director of photography. She shot the Luminist Films productions, Lonewolf and God's Eye. www.luminist.de Mary Novak has an MFA in Film and Video from Columbia College Chicago. She has freelanced in the film industry for several years, including as a writer/producer for educational CD- ROMs. She currently teaches screenwriting at Columbia College Chicago. Mary is the writer, producer and director of Luminist Films current production, Highlights. Sree Nallamothu holds an MFA in Film & Video from Columbia College Chicago. She has collaborated with Sakshi, Human Rights Watch India, taught at Columbia College Chicago and worked extensively with inner-city youth from Chicago through the Community TV Network. Ronit Bezalel has been directing social documentaries for the past ten years. She has shown her work on national television in Canada and England, and exhibited on the festival circuit. Bezalel also works as a Chicago producer, Web Programmer, and freelance sound recordist. Bezalel worked at the National Film Board of Canada, where she directed When Shirley Met Florence. This video is a candid look at a 55 year friendship between two Jewish Women in their Mid-Sixties. Voices of Cabrini is Ronit Bezalel's fifth documentary. Genevieve Wolff moved to Chicago in the Spring of 2002 after graduating from Vassar College with a degree in film production. She has worked as an editor on numerous projects, including two feature documentaries in 2003: A Day on the Force and Patriot Acts. She has also designed and taught two successful video production programs for students in Chicago Public Schools. Tanja Deshida works professionally in the film industry in Chicago as a production designer. She has worked on numerous documentaries and independent film projects as well as national ads and Hollywood feature films. Deshida graduated with honors from the Columbia College film program in 2001.