About

Based in St John’s NL, Melanie Oates is writer, director, producer of five shorts, and winner of the Percy Janes First Novel Award. Her films include: Get Out, Distance, Bait , There you Are, and most recently, Ida Here and There through Telefilm Canada and NIFCO’s Picture Start program. In 2014 she co-founded Carrie at Heart Productions Ltd with Jess Anderson. In 2017 she launched her digital comedy series The Manor. Melanie is an alumna of the WIDC CAM, St John’s and the Story & Leadership program where she developed her feature film Small and Scattered which was nominated by NIFCO and funded through the Telefilm MicroBudget program.