Positioned to act as a global media strategist, Melanie Wallace Media Strategies LLC will connect broadcast and cross platform storytellers with financial support and global distribution opportunities. As Managing Director and founder, Melanie Wallace will guide programming ideas from concept development to funding and on to successful global worldwide distribution.
With 25 years of experience as Senior Series Producer for PBS’s award-winning science series, NOVA, Ms. Wallace brings rare insight into all aspects of factual programming, including content development, talent acquisition and the structuring and negotiation of complex business deals. Melanie discovered and brought to the NOVA audience hundreds of world class science documentaries with an estimated total production budget of $100 million. She refined her skills working with commercial and public broadcasters, foundations and government agencies. She has brokered deals with the BBC, ARTE, NHK and CCTV, along with pan-Asian production and multi-partnered international co-productions. Her content expertise includes climate science, STEM education, the role of diverse voices in documentaries, and the evolving media marketplace.
As senior business consultant Peter Hamilton observed about one of Ms. Wallace’s recent successes, “Melanie successfully applies her decades of experience as a senior PBS programming executive to deliver quality global audiences to her clients’ projects. A creative dealmaker she recently arranged a national PBS broadcast for her client’s documentary Earth Emergency, and negotiated a presentation by the filmmakers at COP26 in Glasgow hosted by King Charles III and supported by the Terra Carta Market Sustainability Initiative.”
Melanie’s Media Strategies’ new projects for 2023 include BrainStorm, a documentary about the Bipolar Spectrum; Never Let Anyone Steal Your Dreams: The Sammy Nestico Story about a world class jazz musician and Imagining a Better World, the life of art therapist and Holocaust survivor Nelly Toll.
Melanie Wallace’s work has received recognition from the News and Documentary Emmys, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards and George Foster Peabody Awards. She is a member of the International Documentary Association, the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers and has juried for the News and Documentary Emmys, the Dupont awards and the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers.