MELISSA. DE SILVA

Melissa De Silva was born in Singapore. She believes in the power of stories to foster empathy, allowing us to inhabit (momentarily) other lives, and understand more deeply what it means to be human. She is currently working on a novel and exploring the possibilities of filmmaking as a storytelling platform to explore the themes she is most drawn to: cultural alienation and cultural reclamation, loneliness and human kinship, memory, forgetting and loss.