Join award-winning producer Melanie Miller (Navalny, Maestra) in conversation about her career, challenges, and chances taken on the cinematic documentary landscape. Her Oscar, BAFTA, Cinema Eye Honors, Producers Guild and Peabody Awards barely graze the surface of her fascinating work in film. 

Melanie Miller is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy and the Producers Guild and the co-founder, along with Diane Becker, of Fishbowl Films (William Dickerson’s Detour, Shaz Bennett’s Alaska is a Drag). She began her distribution career at Gravitas Ventures in 2009 as Vice President of Acquisitions & Marketing, before joining Samuel Goldwyn Films as Executive Vice President in 2015. Melanie is currently in production on Blink (working title), directed by Daniel Roher and Edmund Stenson.

Moderator is Kathleen McInnis.
*This event will be in English.

Friday 2 pm  Vesle Hallvard

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Melanie Miller is an Academy Award-winning producer and recipient of the 2020 Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Nonfiction Producers Award with her producing partner Diane Becker. Fishbowl Films, which she co-founded in 2009 with Diane, focuses on unique and diverse voices with an uncanny sensibility that shines a spotlight on timely and compelling issues. Most recently, Fishbowl was listed as a production company finalist for the 2024 SIMA Awards.
Their documentary films include Sundance alums Inventing Tomorrow (POV), which was awarded a Peabody in 2019, Whirlybird (Mubi) and Navalny (CNN Films | HBOMax), which won the US Documentary Audience Award and the Festival Favorite at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and was also awarded a DuPont, PGA, BAFTA, and the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Additionally, their award-winning film On the Divide premiered on POV in April 2022, just prior to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and in November 2022, the deeply personal and heartfelt Stutz by Jonah Hill launched on Netflix, receiving critical acclaim for an intimate portrait about active therapy surrounding one’s mental health. 

Recent credits also include the docu-series’ Trial by Media (Netflix), Equal (HBOMax) and Marvel 616 (Disney+).
Currently in limited theatrical release in the US is Maestra, which world premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and maintains a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Netflix’ docuseries The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping is currently also 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, with over seven million views in its first week.
Melanie is a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA), the Producers Guild of America (PGA), the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), and the Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).