Melissa Peabody is an award-winning editor and producer, and owner of M Peabody Productions. She has edited wildlife television shows for Turner Broadcasting, Animal Planet, and international broadcast, and has edited dozens of educational programs for Stanford University. She has also co-produced and edited an award-winning 3-part video series on workplace health issues for national distribution. For almost three years, Melissa worked as primary story researcher and associate producer for the documentary unit for NBC's San Francisco affiliate, KRON-TV.

Program awards include: 1996 Golden Panda Award Nominee for Best Wildlife-Issue International Documentary, 1995 Honorable Mention at the International Wildlife Film Festival, Public Service Award from the Neurofibromatosis Foundation, 1994 DuPont- Columbia Journalism Award, 1993 Best Documentary Emmy for Northern California, and 1992 Best Documentary Emmy Northern California.

Sara St. Martin Lynne's film, Rock In A Hard Place, a short narrative about a friendship that emerges between a bullied 11- year-old girl and the boy who lives across the street from her, has screened nationally and internationally at film festivals, fundraising benefits, and in high school classrooms. She worked as a script consultant on Jed Bell's cartoon Drive Thru and is currently developing her feature length narrative film, Night Fliers.

Photo courtesy of Anna Kuperberg