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About JenAs the Senior Producer at Video/Action, Jennifer Crescenzo spent 8 years writing, producing and directing documentary media as a tool for people fighting for social justice and was awarded a Capitol Region Emmy for producing and directing Extraordinary Response to International Terrorism, the story of how the people of Lockerbie, Scotland reached out to the hundreds of families who lost loved ones when terrorists blew up Pan Am Flight 103 in the skies over their sleepy, market town. Her work has been broadcast on Court TV, WETA, and CNN and screened at the National Press Club and the Kennedy Center. In the spring of 2006, Jennifer finished production on her documentary Ready to Play, a daughter's story about how her baseball-loving, Italian-American father salvaged a run-down elementary school ball field in the heart of Washington D.C. and built a 25-year old neighborhood softball league that keeps a changing community together. Since she had so much fun working on a film about her Italian immigrant family and how they took to baseball on the streets of NYC, it was natural that Jennifer would jump at the chance to work on her current project, co-producing The First Basket, a film about how immigrant Jews playing basketball on the streets of NYC helped to build the NBA and make basketball a global phenomenon. Jennifer is a Washington D.C. native and a proud D.C. public school graduate. She holds a BA in English from the University of Notre Dame In addition to her 8 years of production experience, Jennifer is a certified yoga instructor. So, when she is not driving editors crazy with her attention to detail, she is tweaking her students Down Dogs! |
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Ready To PlayClick here to view the Ready To Play website. Long before the Washington Nationals brought baseball back to Washington D.C., baseball-loving Michael 'Crash' Crescenzo salvaged a run-down elementary school ball field in the center of his Glover Park neighborhood and started the city's only co-ed, independent neighborhood softball league. The league that began as an excuse for Crash and his friends to drink beer and play ball together has now been bringing players and fans of all ages to the field for 25 years. As housing prices rise and the old neighborhood begins to change, Crash works to keep the softball league and the community together. Filmmaker Jennifer Crescenzo is Crash's daughter. At the softball field she is affectionately known as 'MiniCrash' since she grew up playing for her dad. They still take the field together every Sunday... |