Melissa Parry

Melissa Parry

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 seriesSenzo: Murder of a Soccer Star (2022) and Tracking Thabo Bester (2024).

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 2013 she enrolled and completed a part-time master’s in History of Art at the University of the Witwatersrand where she used film as a research tool to investigate the biographies of a selection of objects in the Standard Bank African Art Collection. This led to an invitation from the Wits Art Museum (WAM) for Melissa to write a chapter titled Moving images, moving perceptions: An interrogation of the use of film as a productive art history tool for the book Seen, Heard and Valued: WAM celebrates 40 Yearsof the Standard Bank African Art Collection (2021).

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, as well as, the Global Editing Perspectives podcast released in January 2025.