Melissa Lesh founded Emerging Earth Films in 2014 as a way to bridge the arts and sciences. As a director, editor and cinematographer, her work has been screened at film festivals around the world and on platforms such as National Geographic, PBS and Discovery. Lesh is a 2019 Sundance grantee and 2022 artist in residence at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York. Her most recent film, WILDCAT, which she co-directed, produced and edited for Amazon Studios, had its world premiere at Telluride Film Festival in the fall of 2022.