About

Melissa Anastasi is a queer Cypriot-Australian award-winning writer and director working across narrative film, series, and commissioned video works. Melissa’s screenplays have been selected for the prestigious Venice Biennale College Cinema, Binger FilmLab, and shortlisted for the Sundance Lab. She is currently in advanced development on her feature On the Body, which was developed through the Venice Biennale College Cinema, and has since been developed with the support of Stroy’d and Screen NSW. Melissa is also in development on the thriller/horror feature film Becoming Abigail, with Breathless Films.

Melissa’s works are intimate narratives which take a considered approach to identity and the nuances of relationships, subtly exploring cultural, social and psychological factors on the interpersonal. She is the recipient of two ADG Awards, an AACTA nomination, and has exhibited widely at film festivals including Sydney, BFI London, Oldenburg, Tampere, Cork, Nashville, Uppsala and New Directors.

Melissa was recently a development writer in the writer’s room for Goalpost Pictures new series in development The Golden Ass. Melissa has co-written on features for Playground Films and for producers Chris Luscri and Hayley Surgenor.

She’ll Want More

She’ll Want More (SWM) is the banner under which Melissa directs and produces work, from original and adapted dramatic works, to video art and commissioned documentaries.

Melissa Anastasi
Writer & Director
m. +61 410 657 915 w. swmfilms.org
e. melissa@melissaanastasi.com