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Melanie Perkins McLaughlin

Melanie Perkins McLaughlin is an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker. She has produced non-fiction content for HBO, the BBC, ABC, PBS and the A&E Network including voice-over narration. Perkins McLaughlin wrote, produced, directed and narrated the HBOMax documentary Have You Seen Andy, a personal story about the disappearance of her childhood friend. 

A former ward of the state, Perkins McLaughlin graduated from Harvard and Fitchburg State college. She has committed her life’s work to documenting stories of marginalized children and families and revealing systemic injustice. Her HBOMax documentary won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. Her dogged research and investigative reporting has reopened several long-term unresolved cases. 

She lives in a Boston suburb with her husband, children and two dogs. 

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