Film & TV Timeline for Kate Melville
2000 – 2003 I worked for Rhombus Media, as assistant to Founder and Director Barbara Willis Sweete. Projects I worked on with Rhombus include: PERFECT PIE, starring a young Rachel MacAdams, AND an equally young Alison Pill! Cutting and pasting music scores for a BBC production of the Gounot opera ROMEO and JULIET. Yo-Yo Ma’s THE SILK ROAD – an incredible musical endeavour, still evolving! |
2003 – Won the CBC Emerging Screenwriter award. |
![]() 2003 – Co-wrote adaptation of Timothy Findley’s ELIZABETH REX for CBC. |
2004 – Won final draft screenwriting competition (okay, second) with script for PD, then called 20questions. |
![]() 2004 – Co-wrote six episodes of NORTHERN TOWN – a comedy about a meteor sighting, set in the Yukon. Great cast. |
2005 – My first gig writing for Degrassi. I wrote for them in S5 and S7 as a freelancer, then was on the story team in 2009 for season 9.![]() |
2006 – Wrote an episode of REGENESIS.![]() |
2009 – Executive Story Editor for Season Nine of DEGRASSI, 23 x 30. |
2010 – Wrote an episode of BEING ERICA.![]() |
2010 – Wrote an episode and was part of the story dept for ENDGAME.![]() |
2010 – Shot sample scenes for PICTURE DAY in November. |
2011 – Received funding from Telefilm, Harold Greeenberg, TMN, and others, to shoot PICTURE DAY in October. |
2012 – September – TIFF premiere of PICTURE DAY. We win awards. |
2013 – PICTURE DAY released in US and Canada, in Toronto at the Lightbox and in Vancouver at Vancity. |
2013 – Co-producer and writer of an episode of REMEDY.![]() |
2014 – I co-wrote a rom-com AFTER THE BALL.![]() |
2014 – I participated in the TIFF talent lab. |
2014 – Worked as a co-producer on ORPHAN BLACK, season three.![]() |
2015 – Worked as a co-producer-writer on ORPHAN BLACK, season four, wrote 405. |
2017 – Snitch Pictures and Hawkeye Pictures option Women of the Klondike |