The Makers

JESSICA ZITTER, MD, MPH, PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

Dr. Zitter practices critical and palliative care medicine at a public hospital in Oakland, California. She is a passionate advocate for humanism in medicine, utilizing her broad platform as a speaker, writer, and producer of media.

Dr. Zitter is the author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, which chronicles her personal evolution as a physician. It’s stories depict the burdens placed on patients and families as they approach the end of life in our ICUs and hospitals.

Her work is featured in the Netflix short-documentary Extremis, which was nominated for an Oscar and two Emmys in 2017.

She is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and her articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Journal of the American Medical Association, The Washington Post and many other publications. Dr. Zitter is the founder of the Jessica Zitter Media Project, a non-profit organization that uses storytelling to enhance the medical care of patients with serious and end-stage illness.  Learn more about her work here.

KEVIN GORDON, PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR

Kevin began his career in international human rights work before returning to his first love, documentary storytelling, as an alternative tool for change. After completing his MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University, Kevin won awards at film festivals around the world, was selected for the “Filmmakers of Tomorrow” program at the Telluride Film Festival, and earned a Student Academy Award®. His first feature-length film TRUE SON premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was sold to Fusion TV. Kevin has since produced projects for platforms like PBS, Discovery, and The New York Times and for brands such as Facebook, Google, Genentech, and LG.