On the strength of 25 years experience as Senior Series Producer for PBS’s science series NOVA , Melanie Wallace announces the launch of Melanie Wallace Media Strategies LLC. A global media strategist, Wallace connects broadcast and cross platform storytellers with financial support and distribution opportunities. She guides programming ideas from concept development to funding and on to successful global distribution.
Wallace brings rare insight into all aspects of factual programming, including content development, talent acquisition and complex business deals. She refined her skills working with commercial and public broadcasters, foundations and government agencies. She’s 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.
In a recent notable success, Wallace brought Earth Emergency, a PBS documentary to the 2021 UN Climate Conference, COP 26, and to the attention of King Charles III. New projects include BrainStorm a mental health documentary; Never Let Anyone Steal Your Dreams: The Sammy Nestico Story and Imagining a Better World, the life of art therapist and Holocaust survivor Nelly Toll.
Her 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 Duponts and the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers.