Producer: James
Keady
Director: Leslie
Kretzu
Writers: Leslie
Kretzu & James Keady
Senior Editor: Kim
Connell
Assistant Editors:
Adam Holz & Leslie
Kretzu
Music Supervisor: Denise
Luiso
Creative Consultants:
Jeff Lyons & Mike
Pierantozzi
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James Keady is
the manager of SWEAT the film, LLC and is currently
producing, directing and co-writing SWEAT.
Along with his work on this project, James is
a co-director and founder of Educating for Justice,
Inc. James has written, directed and produced
several short videos, including, "A Video
Message to Phil Knight", "Behind the
Swoosh", and "A Worker Speaks Out".
These short films have been screened for over
40,000 students at 180 universities and high
schools across the nation in the past 4 years.
His work has also been screened at the Red Bank
International Film Festival, 2002 & 2003
IFP Market, the Docuclub Filmmaker Series and
the IFG Short Film Series.
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Leslie Kretzu
is currently directing, co-writing and serving
as assistant editor on SWEAT. Along
with her work on this project, Leslie is a co-director
and founder of Educating for Justice, Inc. Leslie
has written and directed several short videos,
including, "A Video Message to Phil Knight",
"Behind the Swoosh", and "A Worker
Speaks Out". These short films have been
screened for over 40,000 students at 180 universities
and high schools across the nation in the past
4years. Her work has also been screened at the
Red Bank International Film Festival, 2002 &
2003 IFP Market, the Docuclub Filmmaker Series
and the IFG Short Film Series.
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Kim Connell, the
Founding Director of Rainlake,
LLC, is the senior editor for SWEAT.
Kim recently served as senior editor on a Discovery
Health premiere, profiling Christopher Reeve
and the many challenges he faced as a quadriplegic.
Kim recently edited the award-winning feature
documentary “We Are Family”, which was honored
at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Kim was
senior editor on the ABC television series “Children
First”, which received a Bronze Telly. “Children
First” screened at The Human Rights Watch Film
Festival and was recognized for excellence in
children’s programming by The President’s Committee
for the Arts. She recently produced and edited
the opening video presentation for the World
Economic Forum.
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Mike
Pierantozzi is a creative consultant
for SWEAT. Along with his work on this
project, Mike has worked with Educating for
Justice, Inc. in many capacities. He acted as
a consultant on all three short films that EFJ
has produced to date, and he has served as a
cameraperson and field producer on two of the
Indonesian shoots for SWEAT. Along
with his work for EFJ, Mike is the Creative
Director at the award-winning, NYC-based Red
Tettemer Agency. At Red Tettemer, Mike has won
several Addy awards for writing print ads and
writing/directing commercials. He started his
professional career in New York as an advertising
executive for two international agencies, Japan's
DCA Advertising and Amsterdam's Anderson & Lembke,
where he worked on the Canon, Japan Airlines
and SAP America accounts.
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Jeff Lyons is
the webmaster and creative consultant for SWEAT.
Jeff has served as Educating for Justice’s webmaster
since the organization’s inception in May 2000.
Jeff is a graphic designer and consultant with
ten years of experience creating a wide array
of design projects. He currently concentrates
on web-based design, but also possesses extensive
experience in print design and production. He
has won two EdPress Awards and was nominated
for three more. (EdPress is a national organization
that awards prizes for excellence in educational
publishing.) He has participated in volunteer
projects in Philadelphia and Mexico. Jeff has
a BA from St. Joseph's University and is a member
of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts).
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Denise
Luiso is Head of Music at Revolution
Studios in Los Angeles, CA and is the Music
Supervisor for SWEAT. In the recent
past, Denise was Senior Director of Soundtracks
at Sony Music, and acted as Soundtrack Coordinator
for films including Armageddon, Orange County,
Godzilla, Charlie’s Angels, and
Charlie’s Angels II: Full Throttle. She
was Executive Producer for soundtracks including
Spiderman and Josie and the Pussycats,
and has won numerous awards including a
2003 American Music Award for the Spiderman
soundtrack.
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