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Melissa Parry has worked in the film industry as a freelance editor since 2005. She works on feature films, documentaries, wildlife, artist’s films and series, such as Netflix’s first African Original Queen Sono (2020), Classified (2023) for Amazon USA and documentary series Senzo: Murder of a Soccer Star (2022) and Tracking Thabo Bester (2024).
In 2010 Melissa’s creative work as an editor was recognised by peers with the awarding of the South African Guild of Editors (SAGE) acronym. She was nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative (2012) and has won multiple international awards for her work on the wildlife films Birth of a Pride (2019) and Okavango: River of Dreams (2020). In 2022 Melissa was welcomed by the American Cinema Editors (ACE) as an International Partner member and participated as a panelist in the ACE EditFest Global 2022 panel Editing for the World.
