Biography

Melody C. Miller is an Emmy Award-Winning filmmaker and cinematographer. She released her first feature film California's Forgotten Children (2018) which won Best Documentary at the Soho International Film Festival and has been impacting viewers at numerous notable film festivals around the world. The documentary screened at the United States of Women Summit and at the United States Senate encouraging policymakers in creating laws and policies to combat trafficking.

Her second directed feature documentary, Ruth Weiss: the Beat Goddess (2019) is about one of the most influential writers of the Beat Generation who revolutionized and empowered the world of poetry. It won an Emmy for Best Cultural and Historical Documentary at the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences San Francisco/Northern California Chapter. The film had it's World Premiere in Italy at the Asolo Art Film Festival, won Best Documentary at the Peekskill Film Festival, Visionary Women In Film Award at the Santa Cruz Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Documentary at a dozen other film festivals nationwide. ruth weiss was awarded the Maverick Spirit Award by Academy Award Qualifying Cinequest Film Festival.

Winner of the Women in Film Cinematography Award Fellowship, Melody has lensed films for a variety of different genres such as the action-packed feature Dimensional Shift (2019), for director Amber Sharp. #WhereIsBeauty (2018), an art noir film starring singer Goapele, directed by Angela McCrae, premiered at the Cannes Pan African Film Festival and won Best Cinematography at the Idlewild International Film Festival. She frequently works with director Nate'Eya Kahsai on comedies and music videos.

In the documentary world, Melody collaborated with director Alexis Kadey, whose human rights film Crowning Change (2018) premiered at the Toronto LGBT Film Festival and won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Awards. Melody traveled across the country and captured breath-taking images and human stories for the Link TV documentary series, On Common Ground (2018) dedicated to protecting the National Parks. Last year Melody documented scenes for the Starz series, Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult (2020), directed by Cecilia Peck, about women branded and forced into sexual slavery.

Melody is originally from Oakland, California, and graduated from UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.
- IMDb mini biography by: M. Miller