Shauly Melamed is an Israeli film director and editor.  In 2022 he directed his first documentary feature film “Mini DV” which premiered at DocAviv. In 2024 he directed his second documentary feature film “Taboo”, a biopic about Israel’s first queer filmmaker Amos Guttman. The film premiered at the Rotterdam film festival and was shown worldwide. 

Shauly is also an award-winning film editor: In 2019 he edited the renowned documentary feature films “Spotting Yossi” and “Queen Shoshana”. In 2021 he edited the fiction feature film “Concerned Citizen”, which had its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) and was sold to HBO. In 2022 he edited the docudrama film “Savoy” and won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Editor, and in 2024 he edited the film “Come Closer” by Tom Nesher which had its international premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.