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Mela Hudson was an award winning actress from Poughkeepsie, New York known for Split Costs (2016), Hits (2014), and The Sisterhood of Night (2014). She started acting in stage productions at the age of eight when she was cast as the lead in her elementary school's play, and she continued to act on stage up until college.

Progressing to motion picture, she studied acting at Dutchess Community College where she focused her skill in multiple student films. In 2009 she was introduced to the New York Talent Club where she started to obtain professional on-set experience working in independent films, and TV commercials, as well as music videos for Deborah Harry, and Robert Plant. She began training professionally at the John Pallotta Studio of Acting, and Jordan Bayne's Permission Playground in New York City. But above all, Mela is most proud of learning from the great Dustin Hoffman, and Kevin Spacey in their Masterclasses.

Mela is also an avid producer, and screenwriter. She made her producer debut in 2013 for such films as Presence, and Resident Evil: Red Falls, which was highly recognized by CapCom and the Resident Evil franchise. She later worked with Strike to Burn Productions again in 2016 for the film, Rainbow 6, Plan B.

Hudson starred in the multi-award winning short film, Split Costs, written and directed by Jeffrey B. Palmer. The film premiered at the 2016 Bluestocking Film Festival in Portland, Maine, where it received an Audience Choice Award. Since then, the film has received 16 awards, and has 16 nominations, including Hudson's 4 wins, and 3 nominations.

In 2017, she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the short film , Eight, which centered around bringing awareness to depression, self harm, sexual and physical abuse, domestic violence, mental illness, and suicide. She also starred in the short film, Melancholia, which has similar undertones of domestic violence, depression, and suicide.

Hudson moved to Los Angeles, California in September of 2017, and began working as a production assistant for Geek and Sundry under Legendary Digital Networks, on such shows as Starter Kit, and Painters Guild, starring Will Fridel. She also worked on the music video, Freaky Friday, featuring Chris Brown and Lil' Dicky, as well as the TV shows Peoples Magazine Investigates, Laff Tracks: Laff Mobb, and Kode with Klossy, starring super-model Karlie Kloss.

To add to her talents, Hudson is a singer, dancer, model, and self-taught pianist and drummer. At the age of four, she started professionally training at the Estelle and Alfonso Performing Arts Program, and the Betty Jean Studio, where she performed on stage in various competitions of Ballet, Jazz, and Tap. At the age of 12, she started playing the piano, and began playing the drums at the age of 14.

Your passion chooses you. If you keep aspiring, you&#39;ll never be what you already are.

If you&#39;ve never seen any of my movies don&#39;t feel bad, neither have I.

On Screenwriting - &quot;I cry with my characters, I laugh with them, and if what I wrote has the same affect on me every time, then I know I have something&quot;.

[In response to her involvement with charities] &quot;These things have always been important to me in my life. It is important that we use our position to do good in the world.&quot;

People see movies to escape, they want to experience a different perspective on life. I hope my movies will cause a reaction in someone, and they&#39;ll change something about themselves for the better. I want people to relate to what they&#39;re watching, to see the uniqueness in each story. I want to evoke something. Even if people don&#39;t like a film of mine, if they talk about it and if it causes them to think and speak to one another, to have human interaction, well then I&#39;ve done my part. I hope people take away some sort of catharsis, personal or external. And at the end of it all, I hope that what they saw stays with them a day later.

It never bothers me when someone thinks I&#39;m inferior to them, because they&#39;re giving me an opportunity to prove myself.

I love acting. We live in such a vast universe, and I want to experience it as much as I can, and as differently as I can.

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