Presented by Melanie Ho, MFA (SouthernDocs).

What are you supposed to do when you are no longer able to love someone you’re supposed to? what we don’t talk about unpacks gendered familial tensions in the moments leading up to a wedding.

About: Melanie is a queer Vietnamese American filmmaker and writer with roots in Florida and Mississippi. Her work focuses on trauma, familial relationships, gender, displacement, and intimacy.  

Since graduating from the UCSC’s Social Documentation MFA program, Mel has worked on various projects as an editor and a cinematographer. She is currently a director/producer at the University of Mississippi’s Southern Documentary Project (SouthDocs), creating intentional storytelling in the South. Mel is a 2022 NeXtDoc Fellow and Gotham/HBO DDI Fellow.