Mary Skinner is a Producer/Writer/Director 2B Productions. The daughter of a Polish Catholic WWII orphan from Warsaw, Skinner has had a longtime interest in stories of Poles during World War II and a very personal appreciation for Irena Sendler. A graduate of UC Berkeley, she studied theater and screenwriting in San Francisco and New York and historical documentary filmmaking at the New School in New York. Over the past two decades she held corporate marketing executive positions with several Fortune 500 companies in New York and San Francisco where she produced dozens of ad campaigns, TV commercials, corporate videos, seminar programs, and web sites. She continues to work as a writer and independent marketing consultant to a wide range of clients, including independent filmmakers. She will be presenting her documentary about Irena Sendler and the women of Żegota (scheduled for release in 2010).