Melanie Ho (she/her) is a Vietnamese American filmmaker and writer. Her work focuses on trauma, familial relationships, gender, displacement, and intimacy. She recently completed an experimental documentary, sống ở đây | to live here, that explores the Vietnamese community in New Orleans and the relationship between land and labor, seen through their foodways. Mel is currently a director/producer at the University of Mississippi’s SouthDocs, creating intentional storytelling in the South. She is finishing two short documentaries mẹ con, which portrays the relationship between a vietnamese woman, the plants she grows, and memories of her mother, and what we don’t talk about, unpacking gendered familial tensions in the moments leading up to a wedding.