
Production
Mel Eslyn
Born 1983-08-19 · Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, USA
Mel Eslyn (born August 19, 1983) is an American film producer, director and writer. She produced the 2014 Sundance Film Festival hit The One I Love, directed by Charlie McDowell and starring Elizabeth Moss, Mark Duplass, and Ted Danson. At the 2013 SXSW Film Festival Mel premiered Dayna Hanson's Imrovement Club, which played in competition and is currently still on the festival circuit. Her features as co-producer include Treatment, which premiered at the 2011 TriBeCa Film Festical, and Lynn Shelton's indie hit Your Sister's Sister, which was picked up by IFC at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival before screening at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and garnering a 2012 Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Performance. The following year, Mel premiered Shelton's follow-up Touchy Feely at the Sundance Film Festival in Dramatic Competition. She is currently in post on Robert Schwartzman's MF, and as the EP on the Seattle-based web series Rocketmen.
Acting credits
6.9Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist, they decide to salvage their relationship by escaping to a beautiful vacation house for the weekend.
The One I Love
2014
6.5Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
Your Sister's Sister
2011
5.4Dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating, strangers Naima and Sergio make a pact to spend 24 straight hours together in an attempt to fast forward their relationship.
Duck Butter
2018
4.7Abby is a sought after massage therapist and a free spirit, while her brother Paul thrives on routine, running a failing dental practice with his assistant and daughter Jenny. Suddenly, Abby develops an aversion to bodily contact, which not only makes her unable to do her job, but also severely affects her relationship with her boyfriend. As Abby navigates her way through an identity crisis, her brother's dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his “healing touch.”
Touchy Feely
2013
No synopsis available yet.
The Epiphany
2011
Behind the camera
4.9When the manager of an Italian restaurant chain wins the opportunity to attend the franchise’s educational immersion program in Italy, what she thought would be a romantic getaway devolves into chaos and catastrophe.
Spin Me Round
2022
6.0As if their pre-arranged date, organized by their traditional Indian parents, wasn’t uncomfortable enough, Ravi and Rita are forced to shelter in place together as COVID-19’s reach intensifies. Hopefully for their sake, opposites do indeed attract.
7 Days
2021
6.9Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist, they decide to salvage their relationship by escaping to a beautiful vacation house for the weekend.
The One I Love
2014
5.7A socially awkward woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.
Horse Girl
2020
5.1In the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity.
Biosphere
2023
5.1In the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity.
Biosphere
2023
5.1In the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity.
Biosphere
2023
5.8Ray is a fledgling entrepreneur who specializes in high-end simulated abductions. He jumps at the chance when a mysterious client contracts him for a weekend kidnapping with a handsome payday at the end. But the job isn't all that it seems.
Take Me
2017
5.4Dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating, strangers Naima and Sergio make a pact to spend 24 straight hours together in an attempt to fast forward their relationship.
Duck Butter
2018
7.0Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.
Blue Jay
2016
7.0An unlikely friendship between two neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Paddleton
2019
4.2A seemingly happy married couple confronts a test of their marriage when one of them drops a baby while at a destination wedding at a tropical island.
The Drop
2022
5.4In a desperate search to create a follow-up to Joe Swanberg's 2011 film Uncle Kent, Kent Osborne travels to a comic book convention in San Diego where he loses his mind and confronts the end of the world.
Uncle Kent 2
2016
NRWhen Abby’s boyfriend unexpectedly drops out of the high school play, she is forced to help outlier Matt step into the role opposite her. Over the course of a long night wandering their small town, the two examine their futures and unearth surprises from their past.
Their Town
2026
6.8For his 45th birthday, wealthy Californian Adam receives a surprise gift from his choreographer partner: 100 weekly Spanish lessons with Cariño, a vivacious expat who teaches virtually from her home in Costa Rica. Adam's unconvinced at first; a self-described “creature-of-habit”, he’s unsure about where or how this new element will fit into his carefully-structured routine.
Language Lessons
2021
5.8Part-time pianist Monty Fagan begins a May-December romance that upends his home life.
Dreamland
2016
6.1In the wake of a collapsed marriage and his father's death, David Lamb hopes to regain his own sense of goodness by focusing his attention on Tommie, an awkward and unpopular 11-year-old girl. Convinced he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness, David takes her on a road trip from Chicago to the Rockies to initiate her into the beauty of the mountain wilderness. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.
Lamb
2015
3.0Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his mother, a mail order bride, to Seattle to face a whole new oppression in his new Christian fundamentalist American dad.
Little Potato
2017
6.2An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high-school teacher.
Outside In
2018
No synopsis available yet.
Mary
2008
No synopsis available yet.
Mary
2008
No synopsis available yet.
Mary
2008
4.2An author, who made a career by examining her own trauma sits down to interview her nephew for a new book about his history as a gender-nonconforming model and pansexual poster boy. Each of them reveal much more than expected and confront some of their most deeply hidden secrets.
I'll Show You Mine
2022
When Matt's ailing mother passes away, his final obligation to spread her ashes proves more difficult than he'd imagined.
Remains
2014