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A humorous and touching road tale, the CareForce One Travelogues features the artist Marisa Morán Jahn, her son Choco, and their buddy Anjum Asharia as they travel from their homes in NYC to Miami in a fifty-year old station wagon, the CareForce One. Meeting up with nannies, housekeepers, caregivers, and allies along the way, this series explores how care intersects with some of today’s most pressing issues — immigration, the legacies of slavery, racial discrimination, and more.
Ninety percent of women and young girls say they do not feel represented in the fashion industry or in media, and that the imagery they consume on a daily basis makes them feel “disgusting” and “less than”.
The exciting new documentary Straight/Curve examines the industries and obstacles responsible for this body image crisis and showcases the dynamic leaders fighting for more diversity of size, race and age.
From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders’ extra-marital affairs to financial schemes undermining our economy, dishonesty seems to be a ubiquitous part of the news. But it’s not just true in the headlines – we ALL cheat.
Producer and Director – Yael Melamede
Producers: Mitch Weitzner, Deborah Camiel, Dan Ariely
Executive Producers: Christina Weiss-Lurie, Marc Schiller
Best Documentary Short Winner – Academy Awards 2013
Best Documentary Short – San Antonio Film Festival
Special Jury Prize – Arizona International Film Festival
Spirit Award – Awareness Fest
UNICEF Special Award – EBS International Documentary Festival
Festival Award Winner – Heartland Film Festival
Best Short Film – Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival
PRESS
8 Doc Shorts on Oscar’s 2012 Shortlist
Latina Magazine
New York Times
Huffington Post
Best of the Fest – Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013
Audience Award, Best Documentary – Vancouver International Film Festival 2013
Audience Award, Best Documentary –  Hamptons International Film Festival 2013
PRESS
Screen Daily
Filmoria
The Herald
EIFFTv
BBC World Service – Outlook
When technophile Sarah Sparks becomes pregnant, her uncertainties about motherhood trigger an impulsive road trip to the source of her anxiety: her long-estranged mother living far away and off-the-grid.
Producers: Annie J. Howell, Lisa Robinson and Jennifer Dougherty
Writers and Directors: Annie J. Howell and Lisa Robinson
Executive Producer: Yael Melamede
Cast:Â Anna Margaret Hollyman, Mary Beth Peil, Andre Holland, Richard Hoag, Sarah Rafferty, Susan Kelechi Watson and Jan Sandwich
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Confounded by her clashes with the seemingly rule-obsessed world, a troubled young girl (Elle Fanning) seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher (Patricia Clarkson).
Producers: Ben Barnz and Lynette Howell
Writer and Director: Daniel Barnz
In association with SALTY Features
Cast:Â Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson, Elle Fanning, Bill Pullman and Campbell Scott
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Nathaniel Kahn, son of the renowned architect Louis I. Kahn, undertakes a five-year, worldwide exploration to understand the life and work of the talented, mysterious and elusive father he barely got to know.
Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Producers: Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Behr
Co-Producer: Yael Melamede
Trailer | Website | IMDB | Netflix | DVD
Nominated for an Academy Award
Paul Auster’s philosophical mystery about Martin Frost (David Thewlis), a writer working on a new novel in his friends’ country home, and the mysterious woman (Irène Jacob) who shows up in his bed one morning.
Producers: Yael Melamede, Paul Auster
and Paulo Branco
Writer and Director: Paul Auster
Cast: David Thewlis, Irène Jacob, Michael Imperioli and Sophie Auster.
Trailer | Website | IMDB | DVD
Auster’s script is available as a book and ebook
A darkly funny and disturbing exploration of men and their complex relationships with women.
Executive Producer: Kevin Connors
Producer: James Suskin, Eva Kolodner and Yael Melamede
Based on the book by: David Foster Wallace
Screenplay and Director: John Krasinski
Cast:Â Timothy Hutton, Ben Shenkman, Christopher Meloni, Ben Gibbard, Will Arnett, Chris Messina, Bobby Cannavale, Will Forte, Dennis O’Hare, Lou Taylor Pucci, Max Minghella, and Julianne Nicholson.
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Celeste (Margaret Cho) and Bam Bam (Bruce Daniels) escape their Midwest hometown for New York. In the process, they take on their high-school nemeses – the dictators of the world-famous Salon Mirage – and discover that true beauty lies within.
Executive Producers: Liz Manne and Catherine Tait
Producers: Karen Taussig, Margaret Cho,
Eva Kolodner and Yael Melamede
Written by: Margaret Cho
Directed by: Lorene Machado
Cast:Â Margaret Cho, Bruce Daniels, Jane Lynch, Alan Cumming, Kathy Najimy, Elaine Hendrix and John Cho
Trailer | IMDB | Margaret Cho | DVD
Winner of the 2015 Emmy for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form.
WHEN I WALK is the heroic self-portrait of a young filmmaker’s struggle with Multiple Sclerosis and the amazing woman who joins him along the way.
Director: Jason DaSilva
Producers: Jason DaSilva and Alice Cook
Executive Producer: Yael Melamede
Website | Trailer | IMDB
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Support the non-profit  When I Walk, Inc., which is dedicated to raising awareness of MS through the media
Poverty-stricken fourteen-year-old Henri (Addie Land) has never known stability and becomes obsessed with her new friend’s seemingly perfect home life.
Executive Producers: Evan R. Bell,
Bill Pope, Cheryl L. Pope, Scott M. Rosenfelt, and Gary Sharfin
Producers: Norma Jean Straw
and Enid Zentelis
Writer and Director: Enid Zentelis
Cast:Â Addie Land, Cara Seymour, Noah Fleiss, Mary Kay Place and Bruce Davison
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Amazon Instant Video
Sundance Screenwriters Lab
and Sundance Film Festival 2004
Brilliant New York attorney Nathan Del Amico (Romain Duris) is skeptical when the strange Dr. Kay (John Malkovich) claims that he can sense when someone is about to die – until inexplicable events cause Nathan to reconsider everything.
Producers: Marc Missonnier, Olivier Delbosc, Christian Larouche and Christian Gagne
Writer and Director: Gilles Bourdos
NY Production Unit Producer: Yael Melamede
Cast: Roman Duris, John Malkovich and Evangeline Lilly
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Amazon Instant Video