Melissa Tinambacan

Place of birth:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:

Biography:

Melissa Tinambacan is a Filipino-Canadian documentary filmmaker based in Utah and recent graduate of Brigham Young University’s Media Arts program. As an artist, she is passionate about empathetic and aesthetic storytelling and seeks to expand the boundaries of nonfiction as an art form. She aims to question the institutions that exist in our culture through an intimate lens, focusing on issues of community and identity.