Melissa Haizlip
Shoes In The Bed Productions, LLC
Full Bio
Founder / CEO / Producer / Director: Shoes in the Bed Productions, LLC
Producer: SOUL at the Center / Lincoln Center Out of Doors Premiere 2019
Producer / Director: Mr. SOUL! - Independent Documentary Feature
Producer / Director: CONTACT HIGH: A VISUAL HISTORY OF HIP-HOP - Radical Media for the Annenberg Center for Photography
Various Art Films and Installations
Assistant to the Director of Development, Assistant to the Director of Alumni, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Associate Producer, Dance in America: "Three By Three" Produced by Ellis Haizlip, Assistant, Director of Cultural Programming, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
Education
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Art History Major
GUILDS: Directors Guild of America
Producer: SOUL at the Center / Lincoln Center Out of Doors Premiere 2019
Producer / Director: Mr. SOUL! - Independent Documentary Feature
Producer / Director: CONTACT HIGH: A VISUAL HISTORY OF HIP-HOP - Radical Media for the Annenberg Center for Photography
Various Art Films and Installations
Assistant to the Director of Development, Assistant to the Director of Alumni, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Associate Producer, Dance in America: "Three By Three" Produced by Ellis Haizlip, Assistant, Director of Cultural Programming, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
Education
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Art History Major
GUILDS: Directors Guild of America
- Professional Credits
- Mr. SOUL Feature Documentary, Producer/Director, Shoes In The Bed Productions
You're Dead to Me, Short Film, Producer, HIFF 2014 Women Calling the Shots Program
A Day in the Life of Bliss, Feature Film, Producer, Class Productions
Miss Communication and Mr:Re, Short Art Film, Producer, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
40 - Feature Film, Casting Director, Karga 7 Pictures
Broadway Actor / Performer, 25 years
- Industry Awards
- International Documentary Association Best Music Documentary Award 2018 - Mr. SOUL! (Producer / Director)
Audience Award for Best Documentary - AFI DOCS 2018 (Mr. SOUL!)
Jury Award for Best Documentary - UrbanWorld 2018 (Mr. SOUL!)
Best Documentary - Pan African Film Festival 2019
Imagen Awards 2014 - BEST SHORT - You're Dead to Me (Producer)
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival 2014 - BEST SHORT - You're Dead to Me (Producer)
LesGaiCineMadrid Film Festival - BEST SHORT - You're Dead to Me (Producer)
Best of Fest Selection: Palm Springs ShortsFest 2014
Reel Rasquache Art & Film Festival 2014 - BEST SHORT - You're Dead to Me (Producer)
Everybody's Perfect Film Festival Geneva - BEST SHORT - You're Dead to Me (Producer)
Chaz and Roger Ebert Fellowship 2013
