Mel Eslyn

Mel Eslyn (born August 19, 1983) is an American film producer and production manager. She works primarily in the Seattle independent film industry and has collaborated with Lynn Shelton and Mark and Jay Duplass on numerous films. She is best known for producing The One I Love (2014) and Lamb (2015), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award.

Eslyn was born in 1983 in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. She attended Pewaukee High School and graduated in 2001. She was inspired to become a filmmaker after seeing the music video for "Somewhere Out There", a song from the animated film An American Tail. She worked on film sets in Milwaukee as a teenager, beginning at the age of 14, and was a production assistant on the 2002 film No Sleep 'til Madison.

Eslyn worked in the Madison, Wisconsin film industry before moving to Seattle in 2008. She entered the Seattle independent film industry through Seattle-based director Lynn Shelton and actor Mark Duplass, whom she befriended while working on their 2009 film Humpday. Eslyn went on to co-produce Shelton's films Your Sister's Sister (2011) and Touchy Feely (2013) and was the line producer on Shelton's 2014 film Laggies. She produced The One I Love (2014), directed by Charlie McDowell and financed by Duplass Brothers Productions, and Lamb (2015), written and directed by Ross Partridge. In 2015, she was hired by Duplass Brothers Productions to oversee the production of the company's low-budget films; Eslyn refers to Mark and Jay Duplass as her own "big brothers".