Julia Query, Producer/Director/Writer:  In graduate school, Query studied Sociology and postmodern feminist theory and established a documentary video collective.  She was associate producer on Dykes, Camera… Action!, about lesbian media activism, and consulting producer for All I Know:  Women and Breast Cancer in Oregon.  She also founded the University of Oregon Queer Film and Video Festival.  When Query left graduate school to pursue work as a stand-up comic, performance artist and writer, she became a stripper in order to have the time and flexible schedule to write and tour her solo performance pieces.  This led her to labor organizing and to producing Live Nude Girls UNITE!.  Subsequent to Live Nude Girls UNITE!, Query returned to school and is now a psychotherapist, speaker and writer.

Vicky Funari, Director/Writer/Editor:  Vicky Funari is a documentary filmmaker, editor, and teacher. Funari produced, directed, and edited the feature documentaries MAQUILÁPOLIS (2006) and Paulina (1998); and she directed and edited Live Nude Girls Unite! (2000).  These award-winning, critically acclaimed films have screened in many preeminent film festivals, including Sundance, Locarno, Havana, Rotterdam, SXSW, and Tribeca.  Her films have won numerous awards, including Grand Jury Prize and Audience Awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival; Lifetime Television’s Vision Award at the Hamptons Film Festival; and Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Women’s International Film Festival of Barcelona.  Her films have aired on PBS, HBO, and the Sundance Channel.  From 2006-2009, Funari directed the MAQUILÁPOLIS binational Community Outreach Campaign, using that film in conjunction with activist organizations and factory workers to promote public dialogue and social change.  Funari has been editor and consulting editor on a wide range of projects, most recently the documentary Strong!, directed by Julie Wyman, which aired on the PBS strand Independent Lens in 2012.  Funari is a Guggenheim Fellow and a MacDowell Colony Fellow.  Funari is currently a Visual Media Scholar at Haverford College, where she teaches, designs interdisciplinary media projects, and programs documentary film series for the college.  She is currently producing and directing two documentaries:  one, currently in post-production, tells a story of healthy aging, community, and ladies in a pool; while the other, in development, is about American rivers and their environmental and human histories.

Gini Reticker, Executive Producer:  Gini Reticker, Chief Creative Officer at Fork Films, is an Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning director and producer with a distinguished career that spans more than 20 years.  She recently directed The Trials of Spring, which has played at Human Rights festivals around the world and was accompanied by six shorts that launched on The New York Times. The film chronicles a young woman’s journey from an Egyptian village to international human rights activist.  Reticker previously won the Tribeca Best Documentary Award for Pray the Devil Back to Hell, the story of Liberian women whose actions helped bring an end to a brutal civil war.  She received an Academy Award nomination for the short film, Asylum, recounting one woman’s journey to political asylum in the US.  That same year she was nominated for an Emmy for producing A Decade Under the Influence.  Reticker was one of the creators of Women, War & Peace for PBS, executive produced Abigail Disney’s The Armor of Light, and co-produced The Betrayal (Nerahkoon) ­ nominated for both an Academy Award and an Independent Spirit Award.  She served as an Executive Producer on 1971, Live Nude Girls UNITE!, Cameraperson, Alias Ruby Blade, Citizen Koch, Hot Girls Wanted and She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.