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Melissa Cooperman holds an MFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in Film and received her undergraduate at the University of Minnesota in Journalism specializing in photojournalism. She came to film after working in New York as a freelance photojournalist for magazines. Melissa has recently moved to the NH Seacoast area where she is currently teaching Film and Video Production at Franklin Pierce College. She is also in post production on her short documentary Super 16mm film about the Sunbonnet Quilters in the Catskill Mountains which has been awarded an O'Connor Foundation matching grant this Summer 2006. She enjoys documenting weddings, mitzvahs and creating naturalistic child portraiture as well reflecting her own interest in watching families grow over the years like her own three children and husband that now call Exeter, NH their new home.
Filmography Director, Editor, Producer Sunbonnet Quilters, 20 minute Super 16mm work in progress Documentary about a quilting group in the Catskill Mountains, Delaware County, NY. A 1 minute short "9 Patch" edited from the film is part of the travelling film festival http://www.slomovideo.com/ Beyond the Wrinkles, 89 minute video documentary http://www.beyondthewrinkles.com Home Movie, 3 minute 16mm B/W narrative A family moving caught on their home movie. Los Platos, 8 minute 16mm B/W Documentary on the Plaza Hotel "Power Breakfast" waitstaff Mirror, 3 minute 16mm B/W narrative A woman mysteriously turns into a man at work. How They Wear Deceit, 15 minute 16mm Color narrative. Colette can't find the keys to let herself out of her Brooklyn apartment. |
Sunbonnet Quilters-9 Patch
a film by Melissa Cooperman
Upcoming Screenings:
Slomo Festival
UK, Korea, Japan....
Fall 2006
Recent News:
Melissa has been nominated for a
Pacific Southwest Emmy for Videography
in the Category of Documentary;
Stories of the Sharp Experience.
Richard Badami Associates.
The ceremony is June 19th in San Diego, CA.
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
a constructivemedia project, 2003