Melitta Tchaicovsky
Producer and Director Melitta Tchaicovsky was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She earned her BA in Visual Communication from the State University of Rio de Janeiro.Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and published in newspapers, magazines and book covers in the US, Spain, Switzerland, Israel and Brazil. In 2001 she established Artnetwork Productions, an independent media production studio based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She dedicates her work to non-fiction media projects that promote the understanding of people's traditions, art and culture; and engage the audience in issues of human rights and social justice.
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The filmmaker has (1) documentaries on ReelChanges which requires funds for completion.
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Her credits include: "Ganga Ma: A Pilgrimage to the Source”, co produced and co-directed in 2001. A haunting visual essay of India's most sacred river and the people who physically and spiritually depend upon it, showcased at several festivals and winner of the award for Best Documentary at the Taos Mountain Film Festival. In 2004 she produced and directed "Warriors of the Rainbow" a documentary about a large non-commercial annual event that thousands of nature lovers hold in remote national forests across the United States broadcasted on Berkeley Channel 28. She co-directed 'The Just Vote Tour", a short documentary that follows a group of musicians, artists and engineers crossing the US from San Francisco to New York on two buses running on 100% recycled vegetable oil; winner of the 2nd prize at the Marin County Short Film and Video Festival in 2006 .
She was co-creator of "Jaisalmer Ayo: “Gateway of the Gypsies" released at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2004. A critically acclaimed study of Rajasthan's rich nomadic cultures that seeded the global Romany diaspora and remain a powerful artistic influence in India and in the world today. “Gateway of the Gypsies” has won an award for Best Documentary at VideoFest San Francisco in 2006; and has been showcased at Art Movie theaters and at festivals worldwide including the 2006 National Geographic All Roads Project Festival and at the Documentary Forthnight Expanded:New York MoMa's Annual Festival of Nonfiction Films in 2007.
She recently completed the 15 minutes short “Never Again?” and is working on the production of the feature Bnai Darfur. "Never Again?” has won the 2nd prize at the 2009 Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust First Annual Short Film Awards.
