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Melissa Skirboll

  • Director
  • Writer
  • Producer
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Melissa Skirboll
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FEMALE FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR 2022 San Angelo Revolution FIlm Festival

FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR 2019 Västerås FilmFestival

Award winning Director, Writer, Actor, Editor and Producer. Her shorts have played at festivals worldwide. Melissa started as an actor, working mainly in theater. In 2010 she started writing and directing plays. Her play BLIZZARD: A LOVE STORY won Outstanding One-Act Play, and she won the Outstanding Direction award for her work on Amy Grey Piper's THE CLOSET at Planet COnnections Theater Festivity in NYC.

In 2016 she adapted her short play Show & Tell Tango to film beginning her filmmaking career. Her collaborations with writer/producer Penny Jackson include My Dinner With Schwartzey, Greetings From Sarajevo and OVERDUE.
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      • 38 wins & 48 nominations total

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    Melissa Skirboll and Jeanine Bartel in Blood is Thicker (2024)
    Blood is Thicker
    Short
    • Director
    • 2024
    Overdue (2022)
    Overdue
    Short
    • Director
    • 2022
    Jeanine Bartel, James Pravasilis, Jennifer Plotzke, Skyler Gallun, Zoe Wilson, Denis Ooi, and Demetrius Blocker in My Dinner With Schwartzey (2019)
    My Dinner With Schwartzey
    Short
    • Director
    • 2019
    Melissa Skirboll, Jason Alan Carvell, Maria Cristina Slye, and Justin G. Nelson in Show & Tell Tango (2018)
    Show & Tell Tango
    Short
    • Director
    • 2018

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    Director



    • Her Turn
      • Director
      • Completed
      • Short



    • Melissa Skirboll and Jeanine Bartel in Blood is Thicker (2024)
      Blood is Thicker
      Short
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Overdue (2022)
      Overdue
      Short
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Alyssa Joanlanne and Jeanine Bartel in Down & Out (2022)
      Down & Out
      Music Video
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Greetings from Sarajevo (2021)
      Greetings from Sarajevo
      Short
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Jeanine Bartel, James Pravasilis, Jennifer Plotzke, Skyler Gallun, Zoe Wilson, Denis Ooi, and Demetrius Blocker in My Dinner With Schwartzey (2019)
      My Dinner With Schwartzey
      Short
      • Director
      • 2019
    • The Spy Who Scratched Me (2018)
      The Spy Who Scratched Me
      Short
      • Director
      • 2018
    • Melissa Skirboll, Jason Alan Carvell, Maria Cristina Slye, and Justin G. Nelson in Show & Tell Tango (2018)
      Show & Tell Tango
      Short
      • Director
      • 2018

    Writer



    • Melissa Skirboll and Jeanine Bartel in Blood is Thicker (2024)
      Blood is Thicker
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2024
    • Overdue (2022)
      Overdue
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2022
    • Jeanine Bartel, James Pravasilis, Jennifer Plotzke, Skyler Gallun, Zoe Wilson, Denis Ooi, and Demetrius Blocker in My Dinner With Schwartzey (2019)
      My Dinner With Schwartzey
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2019
    • Melissa Skirboll, Jason Alan Carvell, Maria Cristina Slye, and Justin G. Nelson in Show & Tell Tango (2018)
      Show & Tell Tango
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2018

    Producer



    • The EffYou 50s
      • consulting producer
      • Post-production
      • TV Series



    • Melissa Skirboll and Jeanine Bartel in Blood is Thicker (2024)
      Blood is Thicker
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2024
    • Overdue (2022)
      Overdue
      Short
      • producer
      • 2022
    • Alyssa Joanlanne and Jeanine Bartel in Down & Out (2022)
      Down & Out
      Music Video
      • producer
      • 2022
    • Greetings from Sarajevo (2021)
      Greetings from Sarajevo
      Short
      • producer
      • 2021
    • Jeanine Bartel, James Pravasilis, Jennifer Plotzke, Skyler Gallun, Zoe Wilson, Denis Ooi, and Demetrius Blocker in My Dinner With Schwartzey (2019)
      My Dinner With Schwartzey
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019
    • The Spy Who Scratched Me (2018)
      The Spy Who Scratched Me
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2018
    • Melissa Skirboll, Jason Alan Carvell, Maria Cristina Slye, and Justin G. Nelson in Show & Tell Tango (2018)
      Show & Tell Tango
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2018

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    Blood is Thicker - Trailer
    Demo Reel 1:10
    Blood is Thicker - Trailer
    Overdue Trailer
    Demo Reel 1:28
    Overdue Trailer
    Trailer: GREETINGS FROM SARAJEVO
    Demo Reel 1:12
    Trailer: GREETINGS FROM SARAJEVO
    Melissa Skirboll ACTOR
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