Manelle Dridi

Producer, Screenwriter and Documentary Filmmaker

Los Angeles, California

Member Since:
September 2024

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About Manelle

Manelle is an engineer-turned-filmmaker that produces documentaries and is looking to produce her TV sitcom, Darna (Our Home), which is about two cousins that move to LA and are navigating their lives while dealing with their codependent family that's moved in next door (think Broad City meets Black-ish but with an Arab family). Darna is currently circling festivals and has received a finalist accolade from the Imagine This International Women's Film Festival (2024).
Manelle is a member of the Brown Girls Documentary Mafia group and the Archival Producers Alliance. She can speak Arabic, French, and English. Manelle graduated with a bachelor's and master's in engineering from Johns Hopkins University and has also studied Filmmaking at the Prague Film School and Documentary Filmmaking at George Washington University.

Gender:
Female

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Darna Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy When two chaotically fun cousins, stubborn Nadine and people-pleasing Lana, announce their decision to leave Virginia to embark on a new adventure in Los Angeles, they never expected their eccentric and clingy Arab-American family--Nadine's hippy, lesbian mother and Lana’s religious and traditional parents along with her two siblings--to uproot their lives and move in right next door. They navigate the chaos of their codependent family dynamics while chasing their dreams and finding themselves.

Credits

Brandy Hellville and the Cult of Fast Fashion (2022 - 2023)
Documentary by HBO Co-Producer
Face to Face with Scott Peterson (2023)
Documentary by Peacock Co-Producer
Sins of Our Mother (2022 - 2023)
Documentary by Netflix Associate Producer
Spector (2022)
Documentary by Showtime Associate Producer
Shark Tank (2020)
Television Production Coordinator