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Claudia Amaya - camera
Claudia Amaya is a Media Educator who was born in El Salvador. She spent her
first 11 years there before immigrating to New York in 1985. For the past two
years she worked for Community School Region 1 Media Center as a media
literacy instructor working with teachers and students in middle schools in
the Bronx. Her other experience is centered on managing, researching,
producing and making media and documentaries. She has worked as a producer on
video art series, short films and also wrote, produced and directed, Silent
Dawn, a short personal documentary that explores her life as a child in El
Salvador and immigrating to America. Through reenactments, archival stills
and personal narration, the documentary explores the themes of war, isolation,
displacement, and remembrance. Currently she works for Educational Video
Center, and is the Co-Executive Director of The Latin American Cinema Festival
of New York. She has a M.F.A. degree in Media Arts Production from the City
University of New York in 2000.
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Niharika Desai - editress
Niharika graduated from the University of Pennsylania. With a
background in photography, she was immediately drawn to editing and the
power of shaping and/or creating a narrative through the visual elements of
a piece. For the past 5 years she has been honing her editing skills by
working on verite style programs for cable. Some of her editing credits
include: The Isaac Mizrahi Show, Eavesdropping with Alan Cumming, Alanis
Morrissette Live! and SHARKS! (a series pilot on female Poker champs). She
is currently working on a two episode documentary on the history of Las
Vegas for The American Experience on PBS
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Liliana Fasanella - camera
Liliana is an award-winning independent
producer. Born in Argentina, she grew up in New York
City and holds a MFA degree in Media Arts Production
from the City University of New York. Her debut
documentary Women Forward received national and
international recognition for highlighting the rise of
a feminist movement among indigenous women from
Chiapas, in the aftermath of the 1994 Zapatista
uprising in Mexico. She is also a Media Literacy
instructor and has taught video production to youths,
educators and community groups in New York, Mexico,
Guatemala and Puerto Rico. She has produced and
created educational videos in public schools
throughout the Bronx and her work has aired on PBS?s
Zoom and on Public Access channels. Currently she is
an editor, videographer and consultant for other
independent producers.
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Justin Field - Intern
Justin has recently completed his dishwashing certification, and hopes the PPK will let him return to complete his internship.
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Denise Gaberman - producer/director
Denise has produced and directed six episodes of the Post Punk Kitchen. Most recently she has worked with the award-winning production company, Firelight Media, as an Associate Producer/Videographer on documentaries about high school reform around the country and on the award-winning PBS documentary "Running" about the 2001 City Council races in NYC. Denise has also facilitated documentaries with youth and elders on protesting the WTO, queer foster care and public space issues in NYC, and the pollution and clean-up of the Bronx River. She has just finished her first screenplay, VICIOUS CYCLES, currently in pre-production and begins filming this fall.
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Isa Moskowitz - creator, co-host
Brooklyn born and bred, Isa has been punking around New York City since the '80's. She's been a waitress, jewelry designer, co-op manager, web designer, 'zine editor, baker, and much more. Now she's an author, finally. She started the PPK in 2003. The rest, as they say, is herstory.
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Terry Romero - co-host
Terry's come a long way from her Connecticut metalhead days.
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Lou Thomas - Editor
Lou has since left us for the greyer skies of Portland but as you can see he plays geetar and is hot.
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