Stephon Litwinczuk (Los Angeles, CA) joined the IDA in April 2004. Shortly thereafter, he landed a ten-week internship at the IDA through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and  he worked on developing and updating an archive for the magazine. Following his internship, he  returned to California State University, Los Angeles to complete his major course work in television, film and media. Litwinczuk aspires to work on social issue documentaries, and he submitted his documentary No Place Like Home, about homelessness, to the 2004 IDA Awards competition in the student category. Litwinczuk was recently hired as IDA's membership coordinator; he is also scheduled to graduate from CSULA in June. He can be reached at stephon@documentary.org.

Andrew Silver's (Boston, MA) latest project, Profiles in Aspiration, features well-spoken women, ranging in age from 12 to 40 and hailing from eight countries, who demonstrate the qualities needed to reach high levels of performance in sports and dance. Some of the women excel at unusual activities such as gymwheel, tarantella and Irish dancing. Others aspire in mountain climbing, ultimate frisbee, pole vaulting, rowing, field hockey, ice hockey, swimming, water polo, judo and running. Some are beginners, some are world champions. Silver's other documentary work includes profiles of such artists as photographer Harry Callahan, composer Michael Smith and singer/songwriter Wei Wei, as well a film about people who have had near-death experiences. He produced a collection of mini-mysteries for PBS (The Great Whodunit) and the documentary Swords into Ploughshares for NHK. Silver likes speculative fiction and has made three works in this genre: Next Door, adapted from the Kurt Vonnegut story; The Murderer, adapted from the Ray Bradbury story (both on PBS); and Return, a feature adapted from the Donald Harrington novel, Some Other Place, The Right Place. Silver also authored "A Film Director's Approach to Nurturing Creativity," which was published as part of a collection of articles entitled Breakthrough Thinking, published by the Harvard Business School Press. He can be reached at asilver@asilverproduction.com.

Audrey R. Stein, Ed.D. (Los Angeles, CA) completed her undergraduate work in education at the University of Vermont and was awarded a State of Massachusetts Fellowship for Doctoral Studies in Special Education at Boston University. Her career as an elementary school teacher was followed by working with children with special needs, lecturing at Northeastern University and serving as executive director of Learning Plus, Inc., a nonprofit agency. She was director of the Philadelphia Gerontology Research Consortium for eight years and, following her move to California, became the Founding Executive Associate Director of the UCLA Center on Aging. She then worked as executive director of The Wellness Community, a cancer support organization, retiring in 2003. In October 2004, Stein mounted a show of her photographs of indigenous and tribal people at the Beverly Hills Public Library. Under the auspices of photographer Phil Borges' program, "Bridges to Understanding," she traveled to Ollantaytambo, Peru to teach digital photography to Quechua teenagers, and to Dharamsala, India. Stein has long been a devoted fan of documentary films and, since moving to Los Angeles, has rarely missed a DocuDay. However, it was only this year that she learned that one does not have to be in the industry to join IDA. She immediately became a member and looks forward to helping IDA increase its membership among the thousands of Angelinos who, like herself, hunt down their favorite documentaries around the city. Says Stein, "These wonderful works of passion are thought-provoking experiences. They have the unique ability to broaden our horizons, educate us, entertain us and enrich our lives."