Melissa Hacker

Melissa Hacker

Melissa Hacker is a documentary filmmaker and freelance film editor. Melissa has edited two Academy Award nominated documentary shorts; 'Sister Rose's Passion' (2004) and 'The Collector of Bedford Street' (2001) as well as documentary programs for HBO, MTV's True Life series, National Geographic Television, ABC's Turning Point, and the PBS/BBC American Cinema series. 'Beyond Conviction' (2005), a feature documentary on restorative justice, won the Audience Award at the Woodstock Film festival, aired on MSNBC and was featured on the Oprah Winfrey show.

Melissa made her directing and producing debut with the documentary film MY KNEES WERE JUMPING; REMEMBERING THE KINDERTRANSPORTS which was named an outstanding documentary by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. MY KNEES WERE JUMPING, which tells the story of the Kindertransports, a rescue mission which saved the lives of nearly 10,000 children in the months before World War II.

Melissa spent the summer of 2006 in Kathmandu, Nepal teaching a documentary filmmaking workshop and editing 'Hami Kunaka Manchhe (We the Corner People)' which won the award for best Nepali documentary at the Kathmandu International Film Festival.

Melissa is a graduate of the New York University Institute of Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts, and has taught there, in the MFA Program in Film and Media at City College, and at Hunter College, in New York City, where she grew up.