Mel Eslyn

Mel Eslyn (born August 19, 1983) is an American film producer, director and writer. She works primarily in the Seattle independent film industry and has collaborated with Lynn Shelton and Mark and Jay Duplass on numerous films. She is best known for producing The One I Love and Lamb (2015), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award. She acts as the President of Duplass Brothers Productions.

Early life Eslyn was born in 1983 in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. She attended Pewaukee High School and graduated in 2001. She was inspired to become a filmmaker after seeing the music video for "Somewhere Out There", a song from the animated film An American Tail. She worked on film sets in Milwaukee as a teenager, beginning at the age of 14, She entered the Seattle independent film industry through Seattle-based director Lynn Shelton and actor Mark Duplass, whom she befriended while working on their 2009 film Humpday. Eslyn went on to co-produce Shelton's films Your Sister's Sister (2011) and Touchy Feely (2013) and was the line producer on Shelton's 2014 film Laggies. She produced The One I Love (2014), directed by Charlie McDowell and financed by Duplass Brothers Productions, and Lamb (2015), written and directed by Ross Partridge. for her work on The One I Love and Lamb.

In 2017, Eslyn took over as President of Duplass Brothers Productions, overseeing all film and television content. 2022 Peabody Awards Entertainment Somebody Somewhere