Visionary with a passion for poetic genre content and strong female characters. According to BlueCat her work covers "terrain much too often neglected in contemporary film." In 2021 her short film 'Shadow Players' has been selected for festivals in Finland, Iceland, Argentina, Brazil and the U.K. The European indie production is nominated for Best Short Film at Wales International Film Festival and it is in the Mostra Fantasia Competition at Cinefantasy, São Paulo. Mel Piper is a ScreenCraft finalist, Stowe Story Lab Final Draft Fellowship finalist, two-time WeScreenplay Diverse Voices semifinalist and BlueCat quarter-finalist. With her writing-directing work she was 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.