Water Melts
TFI Suppport
TFI Network 2019
Logline
A blue-hearted rom-com about people who are going to lose someone they love. Nobody knows what to say. So they fight about nothing, laugh or cry, and dance at the wedding. It's a romantic comedy, after all.
Lillian Mehrel
Co-Director/Writer
Lilian T. Mehrel is an award-winning writer & director with a visionary sense of feeling and humor.
Mary Evangelista
Co-Director/Cinematographer
An award-winning filmmaker, Mary was born in the Philippines and raised in the SF Bay Area. She received her MFA from NYU Tisch School of the arts for Writing and Directing, where she was the recipient of a prestigious Tisch Graduate Fellowship for Cinematography. In her last year at school, she produced Fish Bones - a feature film which premiered at Slamdance 2018. She is the co-creator of Water Melts, a Tribeca Film Institute and Google Daydream supported VR rom-com about people who will lose their loved ones. Her latest short film, Fran This Summer, has screened in over 20 festivals including the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She is currently a Directing Fellow at Film Independent's Project Involve. With all her work, she pursues distinct and transformative stories full of bullish heart and levity.
Tingerine Liu
Producer
a Chinese/Singaporean NYC-based filmmaker, NYU Film MFA graduate, and recipient of the Ang Lee scholarship. She creates stories ranging from rambunctious Beijing punk rockers to the nomadic lives and loves of Chinese sojourners whose stories converge around the layered cakes at NYC's Lady M cafe. Her films have premiered at the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival and toured in the international film circuit and widely in Asia. She produced Water Melts as part of the Tribeca Film Institute and Google Daydream Immersive Programs Lab; it will premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
Maya Edelman
Animator
Maya Edelman is an Emmy-award winning animator (Broad City) and illustrator living and working in New York City. She has worked with clients such as the New York Times, Pop Sugar, Zagat, UCLA, The Dana Foundation, and Whil Concepts. She has also worked on animated projects for RadioLab, Psyop, Blacklist, Transistor, Mighty Oak, Havas Studio 6, and ODD/NY. She is currently represented as a director of animation at MAJORITY.
Ariel Marx
Composer
An award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist, Ariel has composed for major motion pictures including the Emmy-nominated HBO film The Tale, The Devil Has A Name, To Dust, 10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up, and #LIKE. Her scores have premiered at Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW.