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Kathy Leichter is a documentary film producer, media activist, and one of the founders of Mint Leaf Productions. Kathy recently co-produced and co-directed the award-winning PBS documentary, A DAY'S WORK, A DAY'S PAY, about three welfare recipients who become leaders in the fight against workfare in New York City. Currently she is the executive director of THE WORKFARE MEDIA INITIATIVE, a media activism project which trains current and former welfare recipients to show A DAY'S WORK, A DAY'S PAY to community organizations, unions, students, communities of faith, policymakers, and others. Kathy was the producer of the VSM Productions' MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: MIRRORS THAT BIND, a documentary about the impact of the mother/daughter relationship on a woman's body, sexuality, and self-esteem, which is being used by women's and girls organizations and universities across the country. Formerly she worked at WQED, the Pittsburgh PBS station, where she associate produced several social issue documentaries. Kathy serves on the Workers Rights Board of Jobs With Justice and is on the Advisory Board of several independent documentary projects. She is currently developing a film about her grandmother, an Austrian immigrant and renowned family therapist who lived to be 92. Kathy is the mother of an eighteen month old, Otto Justice Leichter Moran. Jonathan Skurnik (Producer, Director, Cinematographer) has been producing and shooting documentaries since 1992. He is currently completing principal photography on his latest documentary, American Shaman which profiles the resurgance of shamanism as a spiritual practice in America. Besides A Day's Work, A Day's Pay and Spit It Out, some of Jonathan's other projects include: Director and Cinematographer for The Children of Abraham about an interfaith summer camp for teens in the mountains of New Mexico; Director, Cinematographer and Editor for The Vineyard Energy Project about creating sustainable communities using solar energy; Director and Cinematographer for Recovering From The Child about post-disaster relief in Peru's northern coast; Cinematographer for High Ground, about the innovative teaching of the Chinua Achebe novel Things Fall Apart in a ninth grade New York City public school; Cinematographer for Women of the Wall, about feminism and religious pluralism in Israel; Cinematographer and advisor for Street Sermon, about a married couple who work full time as Christian evangelists in New York City's Times Square; and Cinematographer and Associate Producer for While The Messiah Tarries, about a fringe group of Orthodox Jews who are pro-Palestinian.