Melissa Skirboll
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.
GREETINGS FROM SARAJEVO is a story of vengeance and possibly of redemption. When Sofia, a survivor of the Bosnian genocide runs into one of the soldiers who destroyed her world she seeks retribution. More
When a starry-eyed 16 year-old is introduced to the outrageous downtown NYC art/rock scene by a powerful music producer with a penchant for teens, she is tempted by the glitzy lifestyle until a More