Melanie Aronson grew up in Lincoln, Massachusetts and currently lives and works between NYC and Malmö, Sweden. She received a Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology from Columbia University and a Masters in Fine Arts in Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts. Melanie works as a director and D.O.P on both documentary and narrative film projects. She directed her first short film, Refuge, which premiered in the U.S. at the 40th Annual Seattle International Film Festival in 2014 and in Europe at the London Short Film Festival in 2015. She is currently working in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University on a number of projects focusing on immigration policy and refugee experiences in Sweden.
Refuge
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Film (short)
by Melanie Aronson (Documentary and Biography)
Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor, Producer Douglas Turnbaugh, a 78 year-old Manhattan intellectual with a hidden passion for whips, bondage, and younger men, relives the evolution of his sexuality and how, from a very young age, he came to discover his love for Sadomasochism.
Two And Twenty Troubles
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Film
by Victor Ilyukhin (Documentary, Biography, Comedy and Family)
Camera and Electrical Department, Sound department Anthony Lopez and Rachel Handler, two disabled actors (both amputees), intend to restart their acting careers after along hiatus. Both meet each other at the Nicu's Spoon Theater - a company whose mission is to give an opportunity to both disabled and non-disabled actors of various ages, races and cultural backgrounds alike.
Columbia University
(2004-2007)
School of Visual Arts
(2004-2007)