Filmmakers.

Jaye & Adam Fenderson

(Co-Directors & Producers)

Adam and Jaye are a husband and wife directing and producing team passionate about increasing college access for low-income and first generation students.

Adam attended the USC School of Cinema Arts where he wrote, directed, edited, and produced several award-winning short films. Since graduating, Adam has worked in all aspects of production in both film and television for such companies as Warner Brothers, Village Roadshow, Walden Media, Bunim-Murray Productions, and PB&J Television. Adam’s editing credits include The Real World (MTV), The Simple Life (E!), America’s Psychic Challenge (Lifetime), Making Menudo (MTV), Miss America: Reality Check (TLC), America’s Prom Queen (ABC Family), Date My House (TLC), Dress My Nest (Style Network), and Blonde Charity Mafia (CW).

Jaye is the author of Seventeen’s Guide To Getting Into College, and in 2005 co-created and produced ABC’s The Scholar, an unscripted television drama that gave 10 high school seniors the chance to compete for a full ride college scholarship. Jaye has 8 years of film and television experience directing documentary-style interviews, producing television shows and short films, and casting such shows as Project Runway, 30 Days, Laguna Beach: The Real OC, The Simple Life, I’m With Rolling Stone, and Dance Life. She has been interviewed by USA Today, US News & World Report, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed, and has published numerous articles on college admission. Her college advice can be found on Seventeen.com and her college and career blog Guide & Seek.

For more information about Jaye and her latest projects visit www.jayefenderson.com

Chris Ekstein

(Director of Photography)

Chris graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Theatre and received his MFA in Cinematography from the American Film Institute where he was the recipient of the 2004 Panavision New Film Maker Award and the Kodak Product Grant Program. His 35mm graduate thesis film, The Pros & Cons of Breathing, was awarded the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Award and was a grant recipient of the Boomer Esiason Foundation. Since graduating from AFI, Chris has been the Director of Photography on the features Callous, Bonita Beach Bob and Mexican Sunrise, and the basketball documentary Gunnin For That #1 Spot, directed by Adam Yauch (MCA) of the Beastie Boys. Chris’ short films Reunion and House of the Rising Sun premiered at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. He also shot second unit on the features Pretty Cool 2, Finding Red Cloud and The Valley Murder Tapes. In 2005, Chris and his wife Stacy Ekstein founded Market Street Productions in Venice, California. Market Street is currently in postproduction on the feature-length documentary Artists & Alchemists. The film, shot and directed by Chris, follows a band of renowned artists and photographers including Chuck Close, Sally Mann and Adam Fuss, as they explore photographic processes used before the days of Kodak.