Melissa Hacker

Melissa Hacker is a New York-based filmmaker listed as a Film & Media artist-in-residence at Anderson Center at Tower View for June 2026. Her best-known film, My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports, premiered at Sundance in 1996 and tells the story of the Kindertransport children. Her current project, Ex Libris, is about her grandfather's life in early 20th-century Vienna and would be her third family memoir.