About

At Melki, we develop high-quality creative content for Canadian and worldwide audiences. Our films and museum exhibitions are character-driven stories that shed light on, and acknowledge, all aspects of the human experience.

MELKI IS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS:

Photo Credit: Louis-Philippe Cusson

The FENCE, Caiberian Cuba 2019, Actress Darianne Ramirez with Viveka Melki

12.The Fence - Darianne Ramirez Blanchette and Director Viveka Melki - Credit _ Louis-Phil

HISTORY

In 2006, Viveka Melki co-founded Tortuga Films, where she produced Campesinos (2006) and Hippocrate (2011), and then went on to direct the two-part series War Correspondence (2014) for Radio-Canada and RDI. Her feature-length documentary After CIRCUS (2016) received acclaim after screenings at several North American film festivals, including Hot Docs International Film Festival, and is currently broadcast across Canada on CBC GEM and Al Jazeera English. Melki’s 2017 film for Radio-Canada, Carricks: Dans le Sillage des Irlandais, aided in the discovery of an 1847 Irish mass grave on the Gaspé coast. She is also the curator of the touring exhibition WAR Flowers, A Touring Art Exhibition (2017–2020) that travelled to The Vimy Visitor Education Centre in France and six Canadian venues.

Melki founded her own production company, MELKI FILMS INC. in 2020.

After 10 years of research Melki wrote, and directed her feature-length documentary, The FENCE (CBC GEM, 2020), which examines the 4-year internment of Canadian veterans following the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941. From 2020-2024 Melki has specialized in trauma-informed documentary and has produced three national films on sexual human trasfficking in Canada for CBC, TELUS National and Societe Radio Canada.

Our Team

Viveka Melki is a storyteller working primarily in film. Her projects shed light on social issues that are often overlooked and focus on the resilience and hope of individuals and communities affected.

VIVEKA MELKI

PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER, CURATOR

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SHE/HER/ELLE

Viveka Melki is the founder and owner of Melki Films, a Montréal-based production house focusing on the visual arts. She identifies as a racialized settler to Turtle Island. She was born in The Gambia to a Lebanese and Indigenous Brazilian family before completing her education in the UK, and then immigrating to Canada, her adopted homeland. Melki brings her experience of having lived and worked in repressive regimes to her storytelling, often incorporating feminist themes and perspectives. Her productions take an investigative approach, through original research, tackling the current narratives of history, often questioning and revealing new information. As a Canadian filmmaker, Melki’s connection to film is two-fold: she acknowledges her responsibility to the First Peoples of Canada to uphold the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations, and to continuously create positive and healthy spaces through the arts.