Melissa Anastasi

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Melissa is an ADG award-winning director who works across multiple disciplines including film, documentary and music videos.

Melissa’s short films have screened worldwide at major international film festivals including; Cannes, Uppsala, Tampere, Oldenburg, St Tropez, Flickerfest, and New Directors New York.

Some of Melissa’s recent work includes Screen Australia funded, Sleepwalking, the commissioned work, This Feral Life, and three short documentaries for Qlife Australia, alongside a range of commercial and music video projects. As a writer, Melissa’s feature film screenplays have been shortlisted for the Sundance Lab, and previously selected for the Binger FilmLab in Amsterdam.  She is currently developing the feature screenplay Bluebirds with support from Screen Australia and Screen NSW.