Melissa B. Miller Costanzo

Melissa B. Miller Costanzo‘s new feature, the romantic comedy The List, starring Halston Sage and Christian Navarro, is out now on VOD through Universal Pictures. Her first feature as a writer-director, All These Small Moments, starring Molly Ringwald, Brian d’Arcy James and Jemima Kirke, came out theatrically in 2019. Working in the art department on such award winning films as Indignation, The Fighter, and Precious, she developed an eye for detail and a perspective defined by experience. Her first feature as a producer was The Tested, starring Aunjanue Ellis, which was accepted to the prestigious IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab and Emerging Narratives at IFP Film Week and took home the top prize at the American Black Film Festival.

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I Missed My Kid’s Birthday. Am I Officially a Director Now?

By Melissa B. Miller Costanzo | August 22, 2023

I Missed My Kid’s Birthday. Am I Officially a Director Now?

As her new movie, The List, comes out, Melissa B. Miller Costanzo ponders the price of making it to the big time.

Movies With My Mom: Hustlers

By Melissa B. Miller Costanzo | October 22, 2019

Movies With My Mom: Hustlers

Hustlers may well have been a critical hit and a smash at the box office, but Mel and her mother are a little harder to please ...

Movies With My Mom: Long Shot

By Melissa B. Miller Costanzo | May 20, 2019

Movies With My Mom: Long Shot

You know that thing where you suggest a film to your mother because you're convinced she'll like it, but then ... well, it doesn't really pan out?

Movies With My Mom: The Beach Bum

By Melissa B. Miller Costanzo | April 17, 2019

Movies With My Mom: The Beach Bum

Mel and her mother see Harmony Korine's wild new movie, and together conceive a brilliant new business idea: McConaughey’s Banana Hammocks.

Movies With My Mom: Can You Ever Forgive Me?

By Melissa B. Miller Costanzo | March 25, 2019

Movies With My Mom: Can You Ever Forgive Me?

In their second attempt at finding a movie they both like, Melissa and her mother go see another awards season biopic that's not Green Book.

Movies With My Mom: Bohemian Rhapsody

By Melissa B. Miller Costanzo | February 20, 2019

Movies With My Mom: Bohemian Rhapsody

In this new column, Miller Costanzo lets her mother pick the movie they are going to watch, despite their very different tastes ...

What I Learned Working On If Beale Street Could Talk

By Melissa B. Miller Costanzo | January 17, 2019

What I Learned Working On If Beale Street Could Talk

The writer-director of the forthcoming All These Small Moments shares wisdom from being part of the art department on Barry Jenkins' latest.