Yael Melamede is the founder of SALTY Features – an independent production company based in NYC whose goal is to create media that is entertaining and enhances the world. Credits include: Executive Producer - TV series Why We Hate, created by Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney - premiered on Discovery in Oct, 2019. Producer - Straight/Curve - premiered on Epix in June, 2017 (directed by Jenny McQuaile)Director/Producer - (Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies, premiered on CNBC in 2015. Producer - Inocente - winner of the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short (Directed by Sean and Andrea Fine)Executive Producer - When I Walk - winner of the 2015 Documentary Emmy (directed by Jason DaSilva)Producer - Desert Runners - winner of multiple audience awards in the US and around the world, Hamptons, Vancouver, Edinburgh (directed by Jennifer Steinman)Other producing credits include: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (directed by John Krasinski and based on the book by David Foster Wallace), The Inner Life of Martin Frost (written and directed by Paul Auster), and My Architect (directed by Nathaniel Kahn and nominated for an Academy Award in 2004). Melamede trained as an architect before becoming a filmmaker and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.