Melissa Bueno-Woerner

(She/Her)

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Brooklyn, NY Afghanistan

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About

Melissa Bueno-Woerner is a Latinx Freelance Producer based in Brooklyn with over eight years of experience creating engaging and impactful non-fiction content for various platforms and audiences. She has worked on creating a wide range of content in the US and abroad, from documentaries/doc-series to short-form non-fiction content for streaming networks, cable, digital, and creative agencies. Her work has covered a range of topics, including immigrant rights, LGBTQ issues, climate activism, food justice, AI, and refugee rights. Melissa holds a BA in International Studies from the University of Washington and has a passion for telling stories that amplify diverse voices and perspectives. She previously worked as the Program Director at an NGO creating and leading a program for LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa and as a Freelance Journalist covering Myanmar's military dictatorship. Melissa is actively seeking opportunities in the documentary, news, and the wider non-fiction media field, where she can apply her skills and expertise to produce compelling and meaningful content.

Featured Work

The New York Times Presents: Elon Musk's Crash Course

Investigative documentary explores Tesla’s difficulty in making automated driving a reality.

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Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story

From Netflix, Pulse Films, a division of VICE Media Group, and Flower Films comes a raw and immersive feature film that follows competitive skateboarding icon Leo Baker in the lead up to the 2020 Olympics. As he faces the sharpening stakes and intensifying disconnect between how the world sees him and who he knows himself to be, the pressure to keep on the course or be true to himself comes to a career and life-defining turning point. Stay on Board is Leo's journey balancing the gendered world of sports, transition, society, and skate culture, which ultimately leads him to the punkest thing imaginable.

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Ale Libre for The New Yorker

Community organizer Alejandra Pablos fights both her deportation case and a broader idea that only some immigrants are deserving of legal status.

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David Blaine: Do Not Attempt

David Blaine: Do Not Attempt is a cinematic journey following magician David Blaine as he chases little-known magic within our world. David is searching for real magic by tracking down incredible people across the globe and learning their closely guarded secrets in order to push his craft to the next level. In each episode, David will lead us on a labyrinthine quest through the most extraordinary cultures in search of the embedded histories, practices, and rituals that surround the skills he seeks to master. Ultimately, each episode culminates with David harnessing the skills he has learned over the course of his journey to pull off a new feat that only this iconic artist could conjure up. (Airs 2025)

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