Festivals & Awards
2019
ScreenCraft Film Fund Finalist
Reykjavík Talent Lab
Coverfly The Red List · Top Rated Fantasy Screenplay
2020
Coverfly The Red List · Top Rated Fantasy Screenplay
Mel Piper is a European nomad who writes and directs films concerning heroines, monsters and music. ScreenCraft finalist, Stowe Story Lab Final Draft Fellowship finalist, two- time WeScreenplay Diverse Voices semifinalist and BlueCat quarter-finalist. Selected for the European Genre Forum 2018, Reykjavík Talent Lab 2019 and the Works in Progress at Brussels Genre Film Market 2020. Operetta-fed by Silesian grandparents she grew up in a German fairytale forest. Studied drama in New York City, film studies in London and never returned home. Member of WIFT and EWA.
The team includes creatives from Belgium, The Netherlands, Wales, Northern Ireland and Germany, and we shot the film in an attic in Hamburg. I wanted to bring together European talent in front of and behind the camera.
The screenplay is a ScreenCraft Film Fund Finalist 2019, Semifinalist 2020 and a Top Rated Fantasy Screenplay on Coverfly’s The Red List. When post-production was brought to a halt due to the pandemic we raised funds through a crowdfunding campaign supported by the Startnext Corona Relief Effort.
Amidst rising segregation the love between people and the telling of stories keep us connected. Polaris falling in love with the story traveller fills me with hope. With one story ending another one might begin.
Director: Mel Piper
filmmaker's profileDiver Polaris is trapped in an underwater cocoon and the ocean around her is dead. So falling in love with this story traveller is a really bad idea.
Duration: 20 min.
Country: Germany
Language: English
Year: 2021
Genre: Fiction (Drama)
Topic: Fable, Fantasy, Myth, Ocean, Post apocalypse, Romance, Trapped, Women
Director: Mel Piper
Producer: Attic Ocean
Writer: Mel Piper
Actors: Amy Molloy, Ruben Van keer
ScreenCraft Film Fund Finalist
Reykjavík Talent Lab
Coverfly The Red List · Top Rated Fantasy Screenplay
Coverfly The Red List · Top Rated Fantasy Screenplay