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Executive Producer, Kathy DiFiore’s educational docu-drama, "Surviving The Streets" provides a realistic view of teen-age urban life and choices that kids have to make when faced with gang violence. DiFiore has worked with inner city youth and has received Humanitarian awards from the NJ State Assembly, the Martin Luther King Jr. 2005 Award from the United Methodist Church of Newark, NJ and was honored with a White House visit with President Ronald Reagan in 1988. DiFiore, no stranger to controversy, says, "If we can stop one youth from joining a street gang, then we have succeeded with this film". Since mid 1998 Kathy has devoted much of her time to producing the evidence-based “The Choice Game”, a DVD/computer game created by Several Sources Shelters, Inc. to help young people make choices and learn the consequences of their choices. Executive Producer, DiFiore and Director, Adam Litwinski, were awarded the 2007 New York International Independent Film Festival award for Best Educational Film and Best Director of an Educational Film. Litwinski comments, "This was a challenging film because while we were providing hope and reasons for escaping gang violence, we were also portraying the darkest sides of it.” Associate Producer and veteran Music Producer, Jeff Billingsley CEO of Cobblestone Records adds "Our approach to this film was to make sure that we captured the realistic feel and pulse of the realities that youth face regarding gang involvement. The creation of the script, the many focus groups we held, all the way to the music we created for the film score accomplished this. Our production was a very detailed process to make our points to change kid’s lives now and in the future." The project began with a script that not only reflected the real world of inner city gang violence and its consequences but also gave the viewer an opportunity to view an alternative ending based on positive choices. "Surviving The Streets" stars loca...