Mel Eslyn

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

Behind the camera

Spin Me Round poster
4.9

When 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

7 Days poster
6.0

As 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

The One I Love poster
6.9

Ethan 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

Horse Girl poster
5.7

A 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

Biosphere poster
5.1

In the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity.

Biosphere

2023

Biosphere poster
5.1

In the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity.

Biosphere

2023

Biosphere poster
5.1

In the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity.

Biosphere

2023

Take Me poster
5.8

Ray 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

Duck Butter poster
5.4

Dissatisfied 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

Blue Jay poster
7.0

Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.

Blue Jay

2016

Paddleton poster
7.0

An unlikely friendship between two neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Paddleton

2019

The Drop poster
4.2

A 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

Uncle Kent 2 poster
5.4

In 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

Their Town poster
NR

When 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

Language Lessons poster
6.8

For 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

Dreamland poster
5.8

Part-time pianist Monty Fagan begins a May-December romance that upends his home life.

Dreamland

2016

Lamb poster
6.1

In 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

Little Potato poster
3.0

Wes 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

Outside In poster
6.2

An 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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mary

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mary

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mary

2008

I'll Show You Mine poster
4.2

An 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

No artwork available
NR

When Matt's ailing mother passes away, his final obligation to spread her ashes proves more difficult than he'd imagined.

Remains

2014