Melissa Vitello has always loved writing and storytelling, starting at age 9, she was writing books and at 12 or 13 when her aunt, who worked in the film industry, starting letting her read scripts, she learned to write her own. Her first screenplay was written at 13 years old.
Melissa moves to LA at around 19 years old and went to school and started a club called Dark Heart Pictures, which ended up being her first company. That’s where she began making short films with her friends and there she found a love of producing and collaboration. Afterward she met her husband, also a filmmaker, they made their first film together in 2016.
Ms. Vitello also worked freelance producing and started work as the head of production for a short form content studio. Then the pandemic happened, and it was time to move on. That began her career as a feature film producer and the creation of her horror film company with another producer, Stacy Snyder, called Moon Castle Films. Moon Castle Films specializes and centers women in horror films.
As well as the work, Melissa also talked about the value of making connections and maintaining relationships plus balancing work/life with her husband who she also shares a production company with.
Melissa’s directorial feature film under the banner of her production company, Moon Castle Films was called Abigail. But her first original full feature film, (directed and written) with Moon Castle Films is called Regression. (Keep an eye out for it!)
Find this podcast wherever you get your podcasts as well as on youtube here —> https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNblhfc6MVBMUe65EA-lWSzG_joW27ZSf
And find Melissa Vitello and her work here:
https://www.mooncastlefilms.com
IG is melissa_makes_movies:
https://www.instagram.com/melissa_makes_movies?igsh=MTVoZTZjMmhodWg5dQ==
And find us:
Carlos Ibarra on IG @jekyl6669 and
https://www.fillintheblanksproductions.ca/
Kimberly at http://www.macabreish.com and IG and Tiktok @macabre_ish. https://linktr.ee/macabre_ish
