Keven McAlester is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He has directed two award-winning documentary features (You’re Gonna Miss Me, nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and The Dungeon Masters, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival) and over 30 music videos, short films, PSAs, and commercials. His other recent work includes producing the HBO documentary short The Fence (2011) and producing/co-writing the forthcoming American Experience film Last Days in Vietnam. Before his first film, he was a newspaper writer and editor, and in 2004, was a Livingston Award finalist for “The Icebox Revisited,” his story about a 1959 rape and murder in Houston, Texas. He grew up in Dallas, Texas and received his B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard University.

Mark Samels was named executive producer of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, PBS’ flagship history series, in 2003. Under Samels' leadership, the series has been honored with nearly every industry award, including the Peabody, Primetime Emmys, the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, Writers Guild Awards, Oscar nominations and Sundance Film Festival Audience and Grand Jury Awards. Prior to joining WGBH, Samels worked as an independent documentary filmmaker, an executive producer for several U.S. public television stations, and as a producer for the first co-production between Japanese and American television. A native of Wisconsin, he is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.