Melanie Rish-Ho
Melanie Rish-Ho is a Canadian-born, Hong Kong-raised, writer & director living in Brooklyn. She has an MFA in film from Columbia University, where she also teaches undergraduate screenwriting as an adjunct assistant professor.
Her short film work has won awards like the Red Dot Communication Design Award and Best Live Action Film at the Forbes under 30 Short Film Festival. She was a finalist for the WGAE x Film Nation Screenwriting Fellowship and is currently in the beginning stages of writing her fourth feature screenplay.
Melanie’s stories tend to explore romantic and familial relationships through comedy and dramedy. She is fascinated by the bonds we take most seriously in life and the funny ways they make us behave.
Courses and Content
Screenwriting: Core Elements
Beginner to Intermediate
With: Trey Ellis, Caleb Aldrich, Raj Trivedi, Melanie Rish-Ho and Maggie Talbot-Minkin
Learn the core elements of writing a screenplay for a feature film, with an accomplished screenwriter as your guide. In this self-paced course, you will develop a new script idea into an outline that can be used to write your first draft.