Kate McLean

Kate Mclean is a filmmaker and producer living in San Francisco She has codirected a number of short documentaries including The Caretaker Cannes Film Festival New York Times OpDoc POV Broadcast Marathon New York Times OpDoc POV Broadcast and Gut Hack SWSW New York Times OpDoc   Kate is producing Jamie Meltzers documentary TRUE CONVICTION which was supported by Sundance Tribeca and the MacArthur Foundation and tells the story of a group of exonerated men who form their own detective agency The film premiered this year at the Tribeca Film Festival where it won a special jury prize It will air on the PBS series Independent Lens next year   She is also the producer of Jason Sussberg and David Alvarados film BILL NYE SCIENCE GUY which premiered this year at SXSW She produced their previous film THE IMMORTALISTS which screened in competition at SXSW BFI and CPH DOX in 2014   Kate is a 2015 Sundance Creative Producing Summit Fellow a San Francisco Film Society KRF Grant winner and an SFFS Film House Resident She has a masters degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism