Acting
Mel Shimkovitz
Acting
Biography
Mel Shimkovitz is an actress and writer, known for Transparent (2014), SMILF (2017) and Be Here Nowish (2014).
Feature Films (5)
A genderqueer widow carries a child using their late wife's embryo, creating a family that will forever link them to the love of their life.
MA / DDY
Mel learns how to take down the patriarchy and also the number one way to put women on top.
How to Vajaculate: If You Build It, She Will Come
A teenage girl commences her journey of sexual exploration through intercourse with an absolutely irrelevant boy.
Virgin Territory
The day after suffering a miscarriage, a young couple attend their local comic con.
A Bad Feeling
Television & Series (3)
A six-episode docucomedy about the Gold Rush culture of the California weed industry starring the multidimensional Gabriel Sunday.
Dope State
An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.
Transparent
THIS IS ME docu-series is an anthology of five 3-5 minute-long TRANSPARENT-inspired documentaries by five different trans and gender-nonconforming filmmakers. Personal essays, direct actions, explainers - each filmmaker has crafted a segment that explores a theme in TRANSPARENT.