Team

MELANIE PERKINS McLAUGHLIN

DIRECTOR

Melanie Perkins McLaughlin is a documentary filmmaker whose career spans 30 years and counting. During that time Melanie she has held various titles ranging from a consultant with ABC news  to senior producer with A&E, co-producer with the Discovery Channel, associate producer with the BBC and as a writer /producer/director with HBO. Melanie is most proud of the deeply personal feature-length documentary, “Have You Seen Andy?”, a story of trauma and resilience that was her directorial debut winning an Emmy Award for outstanding investigative journalism in 2008.  It was also the first time she narrated a feature-length documentary! 

Melanie was a ward of the state who put herself through college by waitressing. She graduated with a double major in human services and communications/media from Fitchburg State College. She began working in television first as an intern with the longest-running series on public television, NOVA. She was hired as a production assistant working on national broadcasts  for the Boston based PBS station WGBH where she traveled from Sarasota Bay documenting the habitat of wild dolphins to London recreating the medieval Great Fire of London and Kitty Hawk filming replicas of the first flight. As an Associate Producer Melanie managed to get a baby grand piano onto a beach in Martha’s Vineyard as a last minute prop. She also followed directions when told to stop air traffic controllers from navigating flights during a film shoot (they did not listen). Her longest shoot (and most well-paid single day job) was a sixteen-hour commercial shoot where Melanie and two additional associate producers spent the night in a grocery store re-arranging display boxes of tea bags on a store shelf while  a producer / director, lighting director, grip and director of photography filmed the tea bags from every possible angle. Melanie has been present for interviews with geniuses like MIT’s Marvin Minsky and actor / comedians like Sam Waterston and Alan Alda . She also worked on one of the first ever online chats with renown author, Frank McCourt. She has led an interesting career of adventure and storytelling. 

STEPHEN McCARTHY

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAHY
Stephen McCarthy is a director of photography whose thirty-five year career has spanned the width and breadth of non-fiction filmmaking.  His work appears regularly in prime time documentary series including PBS’s American Experience, American Masters, Frontline, Nova and POV as well as HBO, Netflix and Apple TV. 
 
Stephen’s credits include 40 episodes of “The American Experience”; recent Nova documentaries on Covid-19, genetics, addiction and Alzheimer’s disease; eight seasons of the hit PBS series “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” and the award-winning miniseries “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.”  
 
Mr. McCarthy has also photographed the Peabody- and Emmy-award-winning series “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross”; two seasons of HBO Family’s Emmy-nominated “Masterclass” and his cinematography is featured in the recent Netflix series “Trial Four” and “Misha and the Wolves.”
 
Stephen has been a visiting lecturer on cinematography at Boston University, Rhode Island School of Design, The Maine Media Workshops and MIT’s graduate program in science writing. He lives in Boston.

JOHN KUSIAK

COMPOSER

John Kusiak composes music for film, television and live performance. He has scored hundreds of projects, including feature films: Tabloid, Secrecy and The Fog of War (additional music), television documentaries for HBO (The Jinx), Netflix (Team Foxcatcher), PBS (17 American Experience Films) and IFC (First Person) and large-screen exhibitions (Mount St. Helens Visitor Center, Yellowstone National Park and the Smithsonian). His score for Errol Morris’ “Tabloid” won the 2012 Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score. Other projects have included music for the opening films of two Academy Awards
programs (2002 and 2007) and two seasons of First Person, a television series directed by Errol Morris and chosen by Time as one of the 10 best series of 2000. He has scored commercials for United Airlines, Quaker Oats and MasterCard, among others. John also writes music for live performance, including collaborations with Boston-based Prometheus Dance, whose Apokalypsis (2000-present) was selected by The Boston Globe as one of the 10 best dance performances of 2000. A full list of credits is available at kusiakmusic.com and also at https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkusiak

RACHEL CLARK

EDITOR

Rachel Clark is a documentary video editor currently residing in Boston. Born in Scotland and raised in England, she has been editing for the past twenty years, both in London, UK and Boston, MA. Past clients include the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, the BBC, Errol Morris, PBS, the National Geographic Channel, and Cinemax. Her work has received multiple Emmy-nominations. She edited the the documentary Family Affair (OWN), premiering in competition at Sundance; and The Amish: Shunned for PBS’s American Experience. Recently, she cut East of Salinas for the PBS documentary series Independent Lens, and several feature length documentaries, including Eat Up, which won the ‘2019 Award for Excellence in Documentary Editing’ at IFF Boston.

CREDITS

HBO Documentary Films in association with Project Productions, LLC
presents
Have You Seen Andy?
A film by Melanie Perkins
Edited by Rachel Clark

Produced, Written
and Directed by

Melanie Perkins

Edited by
Rachel Clark

Music
John Kusiak

Director of Photography
Stephen McCarthy

Associate Producer
Julie Rosenberg

Audio Mix
Richard Bock

Additional Camera
Joe Cannalli
Rachel Clark
Paul Coyne
Brian Dowley
Boyd Estus
Lorre Fritchy
Nathan Hendrie
Mark Kohl
Stephen McMillan
Mike Peavey
Tom Robinson
Julie Rosenberg
Paul Rusnak

Sound
Tom Bacsik
Eric Begley
Brian Buckley
John Cameron
Mario Cardenas
Phil Corona
Frank Coakley
Chris Nicini
Katherine Starzel
Tom Williams
Additional Music
Andrew Willis

Productions Support
provided by
WGBH, Boston

Graphics
Anna Davis-Saraceno
Mandy Minichiello
Alisa Placas
Emily Scott

Colorist/Online
Dave Allen Creative

Consulting Producers
Steve Ascher
Doug Block
Lori Cheatle
Jeanne Jordan
Legal Counsel
Sandy Forman
John G. Ives

Stock Footage Courtesy of
Corbis
Courtesy of MyTV
St. Patrick’s Parish
Faith Puglisi
Adi Sideman
WCVB-TV, Boston, MA
WBZ-TV, Boston, MA
WFXT-TV, Boston, MA
WLVI-TV, Boston, MA

Photos
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Pictometry International Corporation

Headlines
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Thank You
Steve Ascher Polly Klaas Foundation
Dave Berenson Suzanne Kreiter
Rick Beyer Nancy Linde
Hassan Beyah Audrey Louison
John and Magi Bish Pat McDonald
Center for Independent Documentary Michele Meek
Cosmic Blender Sheldon Mirowitz
Bob Curley Linda Morgenstern
Denise DiIanni Gerald Nance
Julia Eddy Bob Nesson
Joe Flaherty Jennifer Pearce
Judith Gaines Nancy Porter
Linda Garmon Beverly Preneveau
Joe Girgenti The Puglisi Family
Andrew Good Peter Rienecker
Linda Harrar James Rutenbeck
Gene Hatem Tom Shamshak
Dave Hoffman Alan White
Heather Ivins Derrick Stokes
Heather Humphrey Video Transfer
Jeanne Jordan Richard Williams

Dedicated To The Children

This has been an HBO Documentary Films Presentation

Supervising Producer
Nancy Abraham

Executive Producer
Sheila Nevins

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