About Melissa

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Life Experience

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Achievements

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Awards

  • "AGAIN" won THE GRAND PRIZE - BEST TV PILOT at the Marina del Rey Film Festival June 2025
    (2025)

  • Blackness of Space, Whiteness of Bones," FINALIST, Stage32 Female Driven Screenplay Contest
    (2024)

  • "Recovering Sky," WINNER Best Adapted Screenplay, Golden State Film Festival
    (2024)

  • "Blackness of Space, Whiteness of Bones," Grand Prize Winner - Best Script, Silicon Beach Film Fest.
    (2023)

  • "Blackness of Space, Whiteness of Bones," WINNER Best Screenplay Drama, 4Theatre Film Festival
    (2023)

Work Experience

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Representation

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Credits

  • The Feud

    The Feud (2025)
    Series by Scott Young (Drama) Screenwriter Podcast Drama Series

  • Catch the Light

    Catch the Light (2019)
    Film (short) by Siddharth Chauhan Screenwriter

  • Hard Laughter

    Hard Laughter (2017)
    Film Screenwriter / Producer

  • Shattered

    Shattered (2016)
    Drama Screenwriter

  • The Calligrapher

    The Calligrapher (2016)
    (Drama) Screenwriter

  • Angel Food

    Angel Food (2015)
    Film (short) Screenwriter

  • No Tomorrow without Merci

    No Tomorrow without Merci (2015)
    Film by Mighty Vision Pictures Co-Producer, and Co-Screenwriter

Loglines

  • The Tile That Levi Laid

    The Tile That Levi Laid Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama In this intense YA coming of age drama, Levi (17) struggles to deal with his mother's cancer and his father's abandonment. When a teacher takes Levi under her wing and helps him overcome his alcohol/drug addiction, he regains control of his life and triumphs in the end.

  • Blackness of Space, Whiteness of Bones

    Blackness of Space, Whiteness of Bones Budget: $10M - $30M | Biopic / True Story Georgia O'Keeffe struggles to change her will to leave the bulk of her estate to her assistant and business manager, Juan Hamilton, because she believes he is the reincarnation of her late husband, Alfred Stieglitz. In Georgia’s mind, she owes her huge success to Alfred, and later to Juan as Alfred’s reincarnation, so she wants to increase Juan’s inheritance to show her gratitude—but Georgia’s niece creates obstacles.

  • Recovering Sky

    Recovering Sky Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller / Suspense Sherry Davis uses her psychic gifts to help search for a missing 12-year-old girl, Sky Jacobi, who contacts Sherry through dreams and visions, and leads Sherry to find her body, and to eventually stop the killer before he kills again.

  • Sadie Hawkins Day

    Sadie Hawkins Day Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy A quirky teenage girl struggles with peer pressure and self-esteem when she must choose between a date with the coolest kid in school and her budding romance with the class nerd in this heartfelt and humorous coming of age story.

  • Catch the Light (Short)

    Catch the Light (Short) Art House A quirky teenage girl moves to a new school and is bullied by the “in crowd” so she is befriended by a gay musician. Feeling like misfits, these two find solace together making music which helps her through the sudden death of her beloved grandmother.

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