Melissa Langer is a Director and Emmy-nominated Cinematographer based in Philadelphia. In her work as a Director, she draws from methods of expanded and experimental cinema, offering non-linear, layered portraits of systems, power and human-manufactured phenomena. She is currently directing her debut feature, IN EXCESS, a portrait of an American city and its trash, told in chapters. She is a Cinema Eye Honors Nominee and her films, including MY ALEPPO, have premiered and won awards at festivals internationally, including IDFA (ARRI IDFA Award), ZagrebDox (Movies that Matter Award), Telluride Film Festival, SXSW, San Francisco Film Festival (New Visions Award), and MoMA’s Doc Fortnight. She holds an MFA in Documentary Film & Video from Stanford University.