A graduate of Muhlenberg College and the School of Communications of the University of Pennsylvania, Natatcha Estebanez had spent almost fifteen years producing, directing, and writing films for television before she collaborated with Jan Eglesonin her first feature film, "The Blue Diner." She died in 2007, leaving her husband, musician and composer Claudio Ragazzi, their eight-year-old daughter Gabriela, her father and brother, as well as a host of friends.