Melissa Painter Email & Phone Number

Venice, Ca, Us

Breakthru is a science-backed platform delivering immersive movement & breathing breaks that boosts mental and physical health. Launched with backing from Microsoft, Breakthru is in use in over 45,000 organizations, in 72 countries, including the NHS in the UK, PwC, SAP, Adobe, lululemon, and Microsoft, where people are using it to prevent burnout, protect against the negative health impacts of sedentary behavior, and to counter fatigue for workers on their feet. Our customers have found increased well-being and reduced burn-out for their employees in microbreaks via Breakthru.

MAP Design Lab is a Venice, CA based human centered product design studio with a focus on emergent technologies and making in mixed reality. Our strategic partners and funders include: Microsoft, lululemon, Nike, Clif Bar, JPL NASA, Unity Technologies, Intel, Boeing, Oculus, AMD, HP, San Francisco Bay School, Technicolor, USC Center for Body Computing, and NVIDIA. Our work has been featured at Sundance, Unity Vision Summit, Future of Storytelling, The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, Cannes, CES, SXSW, on Microsoft HoloLens, Gear VR Oculus store, and Windows Mixed Reality.http://inorbit.earth/http://movestudio.io/https://www.sundance.org/projects/heroes#/http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-bsi-clif-chion-app-20170914-story.htmlhttp://mapdesignlab.com/

5D Global Studio is a cross-disciplinary design studio that uses World Building in service of real-world problems and real-world impact. A nonlinear process at the intersection of design, technology, and storytelling, World Building produces the entire holistic ecosystem—the world—that surrounds any problem or question. World Building was born in cinematic storytelling. Today, 5D uses the process to provide every partner it works with a clear vision of the future it wants to move toward. 5D’s diverse clients include film and game studios, Boeing, Intel, Burberry, Forest City, and Autodesk, among others.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Worked as a content strategist and director on short form documentaries for partners focused on innovation and social impact, such as The Gates Foundation, NRDC, Teaching Gardens, Gladstone Institute, The Exploratorium, The California Endowment, The International Medical Corps, and the ONC. http://www.wondros.com/

Feature films I wrote and directed have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, The New York Film Festival, Cannes, Seattle, Woodstock, Mill Valley, Galway, Edinburgh, and Bilbao and have garnered awards including Best Narrative Feature at SXSW, Best Direction and Best Actor at the Method Fest, and Grand Jury Prize at The Brooklyn Film Festival. NYU thesis film Jump won both the Princess Grace Award and a Warner Brothers Fellowship. Selected as a Fellow of both the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Sundance Directors Lab.Steal Me (2005)Admissions (2004)Wildflowers (1999)Jump (1994)IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656889/

Co-author of Edie: Girl on Fire about Warhol Superstar Edie Sedgwick published by Chronicle Books. Currently in its third printing, it has been translated into Japanese.

New York, New York, Us

The Guild of Future Architects is a home, refuge and resource for people collaboratively shaping a kind, just, inclusive, and prosperous world.https://futurearchitects.com/guild-member/melissa-painterWe want a more beautiful world for more people. So many of us dedicate our lives to this pursuit. But if we’re all working toward better futures, why aren’t we there yet? Systems-level challenges are becoming more complex and critical by the day. We believe collaboration is the way forward, but our current structures and strategies hinder, rather than promote, shared consequences and prosperity. For a more beautiful world, we need a radically new architecture. An architecture that supports collaboration, rather than competition, in service of more beautiful futures. Future architecture applies a new, disciplined approach to the design of these futures. It zeroes in on intangible forms—trust, language and sentiment, among others—to provide pathways to more comprehensive and nuanced impact. By transcending a dominant culture that often ignores or dismisses the power of the intangible, future architecture creates the conditions necessary for humanity to thrive. The central pursuit of future architecture is Shared Futures—potential realities born from the bold vision and dedicated stewardship of collaborative stakeholders seeking long-view and transformational impact.We invite you to explore future architecture with us—a vocation anchored in hope, built on principle, fortified with ritual, learned by action, mastered through commitment and bound to deep collaboration.Websitehttps://www.futurearchitects.com/#guild

Bachelor’S Degree, Classics, Ancient Greek

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Film