Melanie Grams is a German-Hungarian director, producer, and award-winning cinematographer based in Los Angeles.
She holds an MFA in Film Production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and a BFA in Directing from The Media Academy Berlin. Early in her career, she directed and shot campaigns for Berlin’s Senate Department for Education, focusing on underrepresented youth, including refugee communities and children with disabilities.
Melanie served as Director of Mariposa Camera at the Academy Award-winning Breakwater Studios, where she led the camera department for nearly four years. In addition to overseeing a team and supporting the studio’s production pipeline, she directed and photographed select projects.
Today, Melanie works across narrative and documentary filmmaking as a director, producer, and cinematographer. She frequently collaborates with her husband, director Máté Boegi, with whom she most recently produced the narrative short The Performer. Their previous collaboration, The Swimmer, filmed in Denmark, received a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Her documentary work includes Driven, the story of quadriplegic race car driver Mario Bonfante Jr., which earned her the Haskell Wexler Student Documentary Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 2021.
