About: Cindy Chastain, filmmaker and web-obsessive, has been exploring ways to engage an audience through storytelling, teaching, writing and design for over ten years. She received her MFA in screenwriting from Columbia University in New York and a BS in Radio, TV, Film from Northwestern University. Currently she is working on two screenplays and, as User Experience Director, leading the UX process and design for Interactive Partners, an interactive agency specializing in entertainment and media websites in New York. She is also in the process of planning a book that explores the relationship between user experience design and storytelling.