Judith Montell
Director Judith Montell was the producer, director, and co-writer of the Academy Award nominated documentary "Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade." Other projects include: "Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo," a series of twelve half-hour videos teaching the language of Esperanto; also in production (with Bonnie Burt) are "The Radical Jewish Chicken Farmers of Petaluma," which traces the history of the founders and their descendants of this special California community; "The Political is Personal: the Story of Saul Wellman," a study of the interaction between the "old left" and the "new left;" and "The Key from Spain: Bosnian Sephardim," which looks at the Sephardic culture and 20th century history of Bosnian Jews through the story and music of Flory Jagoda, a singer and composer of Ladino songs.
Miriam Chaya
Miriam Chaya, writer, actor, director, producer, educator and documentary filmmaker, has written and performed solo performance pieces about her spiritual journey throughout the country. "Odyssey of a Jewish Woman", her critically acclaimed one-woman show was last seen on national tv on PBS. She is a graduate of the Jewish Spiritual Leadership Training Program at Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley and she is a "Certified Sage" seminar leader with the Spiritual Eldering Institute. She wrote,directed and produced TIMBRELS AND TORAHS: A CELEBRATION OF WISDOM, and is the author of two feminist children's books, THE FOREST PRINCESS and RETURN OF THE FOREST PRINCESS, both of which were reviewed in MS MAGAZINE. For further information about Miriam's work, please explore this Web site or .