Mel Bestel

Birth : , Scotland, UK

History

I am a Grassroots Marketing Coordinator and Social Media Executive working across the release of independent films in my area, and a long term freelancer with Birds Eye View to support its mission to *Reclaim The Frame*. I have experience with social media, grassroots marketing and events management and great contacts in my local area. I take pride in my ability to adapt quickly to new challenges and love making new connections with people to create action based results. I have also worked as a Production and Floor Runner on a variety of features, short films and commercials. Recently I worked closely with an award-winning director and producer team as a Casting PA and First Assistant Director on a project called Strong Is Better Than Angry for the Uncertain Kingdom. Since June 2021 I have worked closely with the exec producer of a Warner Brothers film due to shoot in Glasgow, and as of August I have been assistant to the directors of this high budget film, assisting with script meetings, coordinating storyboard artists, all manner of scheduling across global time-frames, and the myriad other duties that assisting a directing due entails. I am also keen to expand my network and consider roles in both production and film marketing as well as connecting with film-making creatives to create development opportunities.

Movies

The Wolf Suit
Second Assistant Director
How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parents into the experiment and on a journey into the past.
Then Came You
Floor Runner
A lonely widow plans a trip around the world with her husband's ashes, to visit the places they loved in the movies. During her first stop in Scotland at the beautiful estate she stays in, she meets the innkeeper who changes her life forever.
Crypsis
First Assistant Director
After fleeing for his life, a gay refugee files for asylum in Scotland. Lacking evidence, he decides to photograph himself in the dark techno world of a queer underground scene. Based on accounts of real-life African LGBT refugees and the challenges they face during the asylum process, Crypsis is a raw depiction of a grim reality obscured by vitriolic public debate about refugees and the broken system that surrounds them.
Look Up
Thanks
A superstitious widow looks at the stars every night in the hope of understanding her late husband's last words to her. Meanwhile a homeless man discovers some interesting items discarded in a bin.
A Gorbal's Story
Researcher
In September 1954 in Gorbals, Glasgow, rumours had spread among the school children of a terrible, 7 foot tall vampire with iron teeth. Rumour had it that this vampire had kidnapped and murdered two young boys and feasted on their corpses. Despite the adults and the police trying to calm the hysteria, the children decided that action had to be taken to bring this terrible ‘Gorbals Vampire’ to justice.