True Conviction

Jamie Meltzer is a documentary filmmaker and professor in the MFA Program in Documentary Film at Stanford University. His award-winning documentaries have screened at Berlinale, Hot Docs, SXSW, and Tribeca, broadcast on PBS and as New York Times Op-Docs, and supported by the Sundance Institute, MacArthur Foundation, and ITVS.

Kate McLean is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. Her project Immigrant Nation was awarded the Tribeca Film Institute New Media grant and is slated to launch later this year. Her short film Pot Country screened at a number of festivals, including Hot Docs and Mill Valley International Film Festival. Before that, she worked as an Associate Producer on the PBS special The Botany of Desire, adapted from Michael Pollan’s book of the same name. She has a master's degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

David Alvarado is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, focusing on biographies in science, health, and the arts. His past PBS work includes Bill Nye: Science Guy (POV), Matter of Mind (Independent Lens), Blood Sugar Rising (WGBH), and Secrets in your Data (NOVA). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.