Mel Oppenheim

Special Projects

film stuff

About 8 years ago I started producing short films with my brother (If that isn’t special then I don’t know what is!). I just produced my first feature film, SOME KIND OF HEAVEN, in partnership with the New York Times, Los Angeles Media Fund, Darren Aronofsky, and Protozoa, which premiered at Sundance 2020,

What kind of person takes a cruise not for a week or a month — but for the rest of his life? (Tribeca Film Festival 2018 selection, Sundance 2019, and New York Times OpDoc.)

An airport parking lot in Los Angeles has become an improvised village of airline workers. (New York Times OpDoc)

To beg for leniency, defense attorneys are producing tear-jerking documentaries for an audience of one: the judge. (New York Times OpDoc).

& other recent stuff

HANDMADE JEWELRY

In 2019 I started designing and making handmade jewelry, featuring gold, silver, and rose gold wabi sabi circular discs in honor of all the special women in my life.

 

Installations

Creating fun, immersive, in-person experiences. This one is called the #ProgressPavilion which was built as a 2 week pop up for Int’l Women’s Day 2018 in NYC.