PROFILE
 Cinda Firestone has always been and still is a rebel with a cause. At age 15 while attending Miss Porter's in Farmington, Conn. -- a famous boarding school, she initiated a campaign to make church attendance voluntary. This caused the two ministers in the two local churches in Farmington to preach sermons against her.
Later Cinda attended Sarah Lawrence College where she was a member of the Strike Committee that closed down the school in protest against the Vietnam War. She also was jailed during the Columbia University anti-Vietnam War uprising, and devoted her senior year as editor of the college newspaper to getting rid of the new President of Sarah Lawrence - who was an ex-Vice President of IBM who believed that artists could be replaced by machines.
The day after Cinda graduated, she began working as a journalist at Liberation News Service, a radical news service used by (in those days) ubiquitous radical and community newspapers.
While interviewing acclaimed director Emile de Antonio, Cinda learned that he was looking for an assistant. She started working with him immediately. Shortly thereafter, the events of Attica began and Cinda decided to make her own film documenting the prison take-over. She was just 23 years-old at the time. [ http://www.atticathefilm.com/ ]
Following Attica Cinda made 3 more documentaries, South Beach, Retirement and Mountain People on the different ways people retire or choose not to. Not realizing how intense an impact the experience of making Attica had on her, Cinda became ill for many years and retreated into being somewhat of a hermit. She devoted herself to reading and writing.
Upon healing, at the age of 35, Cinda married Manny Fox who she had met through her desire to become involved in theater. Manny had just produced the hit Broadway musical, Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies. Cinda became involved in Children's Theater and wrote 3 original musicals with music by her son, William Fox, one of which, Questionable Quest, played successfully at the Beacon Theater in New York City.
Cinda and her son, William Fox Cinda is currently fighting to save the endangered sea turtles' nesting grounds on the beach in back of her house in Puerto Rico.
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