Melody C. Miller is an Emmy Award-Winning documentary filmmaker and cinematographer whose creative vision and human rights advocacy has made her films a powerful voice for change promoting understanding, empathy, and action. She has produced and directed two critically acclaimed feature documentaries that have had a positive impact on audiences worldwide. California's Forgotten Children sheds light on an important human rights issue, received recognition at the United State Senate for fostering a movement to help protect children. While her electrifying film about one of the influential poets of the Beat Generation, ruth weiss, the beat goddess earned an Emmy Award for Best Historical and Cultural Documentary.