DIRECTOR
STEPHEN TALBOT is an Emmy, DuPont and Peabody award-winning filmmaker who has produced, written or directed more than 40 documentaries for public television, primarily for the PBS series Frontline and KQED (San Francisco). His Frontline films include The Best Campaign Money Can Buy, The Long March of Newt Gingrich, Justice for Sale and News War: What’s Happening to the News. He directed the PBS history special, 1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation, as well as producing and writing PBS biographies of authors Dashiell Hammett, Ken Kesey, Carlos Fuentes, Maxine Hong Kingston and John Dos Passos. He was the co-creator and executive producer of the PBS music specials, Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders. Talbot also served as the series editor for Frontline’s international series, Frontline World: Stories from a Small Planet, and the senior producer of documentary shorts for the PBS series Independent Lens. As a student at Wesleyan University, he made his first documentary film about the November 1969 anti-war protests in Washington, DC.
EDITOR
STEPHANIE MECHURA has edited documentary films for nearly 25 years, including at Lucasfilms, Ltd and at the Center for Investigative Reporting. Her films have aired on PBS Frontline, Independent Lens, Netflix and The New York Times OpDocs. Stephanie’s Emmy-nominated films received several of journalism’s highest awards, including the DuPont Columbia Award and the Daniel Pearl Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 2018, The Game Changers, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Louis Psihoyos, premiered at Sundance and is now on Netflix. The Pushouts, directed by Katie Galloway aired as a Frontline special broadcast. Stephanie’s latest film is Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me, directed by Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Abby Ginzberg.
