Melanie Bencosme

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Melanie Bencosme received a Master's at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in 2014. Melanie's work has been recognized by the Gracie Awards, The Newswomen's Club of New York, the Sigma Delta Chi Awards, the National Press Photographers Awards, The Los Angeles Film Awards and in film festivals in New York and California. Her work has been featured on MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, BET, Hulu, FX and NBC News. She is the director/producer/cinematographer of the award-winning short, The Last Doctors and producer on Emmy Award-winning documentary The New York Times Presents: Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson and the Emmy-nominated documentary The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears available on FX and Hulu.