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((short description|American independent documentary filmmaker))
((Infobox person
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| birth_place        = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
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'''Melody Gilbert''' is an [[Independent film|independent]] [[documentary film]]maker, and [[educator]] from [[Washington, D.C.]] now living in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana]].<ref name="CP2">((cite news|url=http://www.citypages.com/2003-09-10/news/final-cut-pro&page=59|title=Final Cut Pro: With 'Whole,' Twin Cities-based filmmaker Melody Gilbert discovers less is more|last=Maerz|first=Melissa|date=September 10, 2003|work=citypages.com|publisher=Citypages|accessdate=2009-06-02))</ref><ref name="MPR2">((cite web|url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/03/16/urbanexplorers/|title=Melody Gilbert's trip "Into the Darkness"|last=Kerr|first=Euan|date=March 16, 2007|publisher=[[Minnesota Public Radio]]|accessdate=2009-06-02))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=http://www.dane101.com/arts/2008/03/19/wff2008_interview_with_urban_explorers_filmmaker_melody_gilbert|title=WFF2008: Interview with "Urban Explorers" filmmaker Melody Gilbert|last=Cisar|first=Katjusa|date=March 19, 2008|work=dane101.com|accessdate=2009-06-02))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=http://www.mnstories.com/archives/2006/03/melody_gilbert.html|title=Melody Gilbert|date=March 3, 2006|publisher=Minnesota Stories|accessdate=2009-06-02))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=http://www.filmclick.com/index.php?section=film.index&filmid=3051225213278|title=Iterview with Melody Gilbert|date=2008|publisher=Film Click|accessdate=2009-06-02))</ref> She has [[Film director|directed]], [[film]]ed, [[Film producer|produced]], and sometimes [[Editing|edited]], seven independent feature-length documentaries since 2002. [[Documentary Channel (TV network)|The Documentary Channel]] calls her "one of the most fearless filmmakers in contemporary documentary cinema." She is currently an assistant professor of journalism at [[Northwestern State University]].<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.nsula.edu/new-media-professor-gilbert-nominated-for-emmy-award/|title=New Media Professor Gilbert nominated for Emmy Award|last=Jackson|first=Leah|website=Northwestern State University|date=12 September 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-19))</ref>

The films that Gilbert directs and films are noteworthy for featuring a rare intimacy with her subjects as she unearths previously hidden worlds. She works mostly solo with a small camera and wireless microphone and has the ability to get people to reveal their innermost thoughts, whether it's the family of a child who can't feel pain (''[[A Life Without Pain]],'' 2005), people who want to be an amputee (''[[Whole (film)|Whole]],'' 2003), a former Vice President of the United States (''[[Fritz: The Walter Mondale Story]]'', 2008), or people who have full-fledged relationships with synthetic companions (''Silicone Soul'', 2018). All of her films have been made available on [[Netflix]] and [[ITunes Store|iTunes]] and been in prestigious film festivals and broadcast internationally on networks in Germany, France, Finland, Denmark, and more.

Gilbert also serves as a producer and writer for other documentary projects she believes in, including ''Beneath the Ink'' (nominated for a 2019 national Emmy for Outstanding Short Documentary), ''Women Outward Bound'' (2016, PBS) and the James Beard award-winning ''The Starfish Throwers'' (2015). Most recently Gilbert was a producer/story consultant for ''Love Them First: Lessons from Lucy Laney Elementary'' (2019, KARE11-TV, national broadcast in October 2019).

==Background==
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Born in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington, D.C]], raised in [[Chevy Chase, Maryland]], and a graduate of [[Tulane University]]. Melody earned her master's degree from the [[University of Minnesota]].

Prior to making documentaries, Melody was an award-winning broadcast journalist for 15 years at TV stations around the country. She started her career as the audience coordinator at the original [[Charlie Rose show|Charlie Rose Show]] with a live audience at noon on [[WRC-TV]] in Washington, D.C. She moved on to TV stations [[WPIX]] and WOR in New York, where she worked as a production assistant and news writer and then to various stations as a reporter, producer and anchor for [[WAOW]] in [[Wausau, Wisconsin|Wausau, WI]], [[WJXT]] in [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville, FL]] and eventually landing in Minnesota for twenty years where she worked at TV stations including [[KSTP-TV|KSTP]], [[WCCO-TV|WCCO]], and [[Twin Cities PBS|Twin Cities Public Television]]. Her specialty was investigative journalism (she once won the national I.R.E. award for best investigative reporting for a story about how the U.S. government sprayed chemicals on unsuspecting Minneapolis residents calling it “weather testing”) as well as arts reporting.  She was also freelance field producer for ABC, NBC, and CBS news going on assignment for the nightly news and morning talk shows.

Melody has been focused for the past 15 years on making independent documentaries. She says her films don't give answers; they create conversations.

Melody is also a passionate educator, most recently on the faculty at the American University in Bulgaria for four years. She has also taught at Carleton College (Minnesota), Columbia College (Chicago), and University of Minnesota as well as overseas for U.S.I.A. in Romania and Khyrgzstan.  For more than a dozen years, Melody taught courses at Film North (formerly IFP-MN) in St. Paul, Minnesota.  In Fall 2019, she joined the faculty at Northwestern State University in the department of New Media, Journalism, and Communication Arts where she will be teaching the next generation of visual storytellers.

Melody taught her popular “Documentary Boot Camp” for more than a dozen years around the world, most recently in Moldova (Moldox), Bulgaria (Balkan Documentary Center) and Kosovo (Dokufest).  She has also been a tutor for emerging filmmakers at workshops internationally and served on the jury at film festivals including MSPIFF (Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival), Chronograf (Chisinau) and Sofia International Film Festival (Bulgaria).   In 2017, Melody was named a Fulbright Specialist for filmmaking and journalism.

She has been awarded multiple grants and fellowships, including several from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Jerome Foundation, and she was the first recipient of the McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship for Filmmakers in 2004.

Melody is also very active in the filmmaking community. She is the founder and chair of the Film Fatales chapter in Minneapolis, an international group of women who direct feature-length films.  She was a founding board member of Women in Film and Television in Minnesota and a long-time member of IFP-MN (now Film North) serving a board member and advisory board member.

==Filmography==
* ''Married at the Mall'' (2002)
* ''[[Whole (film)|Whole]]'' (2003)
* ''[[A Life Without Pain]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Urban Explorers (film)|Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness]]'' (2007)
* ''Disconnected: A Documentary'' (2008)
* ''[[Fritz: The Walter Mondale Story]]'' (2008)
* ''Tami Tushie's Toys'' (2010)
* ''Numb'' (2010)
* ''American Heart'' (2013)
* ''The Starfish Throwers'' (2014)
* ''Steps in the Fire'' (2015)
* ''The Summer Help'' (2016)
* ''Women Outward Bound'' (2016)
* ''Silicone Soul'' (2018)

==Awards and recognition==
Gilbert received regional Emmys as producer on ''Our Bodies/Ourselves'' (2000) ([[Twin Cities Public Television|TPT]]),<ref name="MD13">((cite news|url=http://old.mndaily.com/articles/2000/11/03/14377|title=U journalism students fare well at first Minnesota Emmy Awards|last=Rasmussen|first=Brianne|date=November 3, 2000|publisher=[[Minnesota Daily]]|accessdate=2009-06-02))</ref> and for ''Battered Lives'' (1996) ([[WCCO-TV|WCCO]]). She received the [[American Women in Radio and Television]] (AWRT) national award for best series for ''Defying Tradition: Hmong Teen Brides''. Her short documentary ''Jamie Butcher Dies at Home'' was shown on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s [[Prime Time Live]].  She has also won a national award from [[Investigative Reporters and Editors]] (IRE) for ''Toxic testing'', a short documentary about how the U.S. government sprayed citizens of [[Minneapolis]] with toxic chemicals in the 1950s. The documentary prompted an investigation led by the late U.S. Senator [[Paul Wellstone]]. Her documentaries have been the official selections of festivals [[South by Southwest|SXSW]], [[International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam|idfa]], [[Chicago International Documentary Film Festival|Chicago International Documentary Festival]], [[Los Angeles Film Festival]], [[Thessaloniki Documentary Festival]], [[Montreal World Film Festival]], [[Florida Film Festival]], Someone to Watch at San Francisco Doc Fest, Best Feature at [[Boston Underground Film Festival]], and won Best of Fest at [[Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival|Hot Docs.]] ''The Starfish Throwers,'' a documentary she produced, was named "the most heartwarming documentary of 2014" by the ''Huffington Post''.<ref>((cite web |last1=Neligan |first1=Kate |title=The Top 10 Heartwarming Films of 2014 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-neligan/the-top-10-heartwarming-f_b_6512002.html |website=HuffPost |language=en |date=21 January 2015))</ref> Melody is also the executive producer of ''American Heart (2013),'' the co-director of ''Steps in the Fire (2014),'' the first 3D documentary in Bulgaria, and the producer/writer of ''Women Outward Bound (2016).''

==Additional sources==
*''eFilmCritic'' interview, "SXSW '05 Interview: 'A Life Without Pain' Director Melody Gilbert"<ref>((cite web
|url=http://efilmcritic.com/feature.php?feature=1373
|title=SXSW '05 Interview: 'A Life Without Pain' Director Melody Gilbert
|last=Weinberg
|first=Scott
|publisher=eFilmCritic
|accessdate=2009-06-03))</ref>
*''Rift Magazine'', "Melody Gilbert - Documentary Filmmaker"<ref>((cite web
|url=http://www.riftmagazine.com/?p=547
|title=Melody Gilbert - Documentary Filmmaker
|date=February 4, 2009
|publisher=Rift Magazine
|accessdate=2009-06-03))</ref>
*''[[Minnesota Public Radio]]'', "Melody Gilbert's trip 'Into the Darkness'"<ref>((cite web
|url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/03/16/urbanexplorers/
|title=Melody Gilbert's trip "Into the Darkness"
|last=Kerr
|first=Euan
|date=March 16, 2007
|publisher=[[Minnesota Public Radio]]
|accessdate=2009-06-03))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*((IMDb name|1745923))
*[http://www.frozenfeetfilms.com/ Frozen Feet Films official website]
*[https://www.melodygilbertvideo.com/ Melody Gilbert Video]

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