Melissa Haizlip
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    225 Varick Street, Suite 400,
    New York, NY, 10014, United States of America
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    Office:   323 428-0506

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

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
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