Melissa Cushman Banczak
cell 520-240-6374
Melissa@friedeggfilms.com
Last update February 6, 2010

Press:

January 28, 2010, Tucson Examiner.com
Tucson Production Company's new Webseries available on DVD

 July 25, 2009, Tucson Examiner.com
Webseries Crewing Up brings the funny

July 9, 2009, Tucson Weekly
The Future of TV

November 03, 2008 Roguecinema.com
Crewing Up Review

September 06, 2008 Tube Filter.com
A-lister Crewing Up on Public Access

August 14, 2008, Caliente Cover Story (Tucson Daily Star)
Making Waves on the Web

Sept 23, 2004, Birmingham Weekly
Ten Top Local Filmmakers (In Sidewalk Moving Pictures Festival)

August 22, 2004, Montgomery Advertiser
 Filmmakers find a Home in Alabama

Press Clippings available upon request

Melissa Cushman Banczak spent 5 years as an editor and screenplay agent at Otitis Media Literary Agency in Minneapolis. Her first short film, Lilah and the Alien, won an ACE award for acting at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in Birmingham, AL in 2004.  When not producing her own projects, Melissa is behind the camera for other directors in the Tucson area. In addition to filmmaking, she works as a freelance writer on a variety of subjects.