Melinda Li

Melinda Li

Director of Development, Film & TV

TM Instruments

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Interests
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Formats Interested In

Features

Intellectual Property (IP) for Film/TV Development

Particularly Interested In

I am particularly interested in voice-driven character portraits, either half-hour or hour-long female and BIPOC-driven premium dark comedies like ATLANTA, RAMY, I MAY DESTROY YOU, FLEABAG. I am also particularly interested in budget-friendly high concept grounded sci-fi shows and features such as SEVERANCE. On the feature side, I'm additionally interested in high concept coming of age stories and commercial magical realism.

Women Writers

Writers of Color

LGBTQIA+ Writers

Neurodivergent Writers

Writers Outside LA

Authors (Fiction)

Feature Genres

Drama

Comedy

RomCom

Sci-Fi

Action

Adventure

Fantasy

Thriller

Horror

Budget Range

All Budget Ranges

TV Formats

Half-Hour Pilots (single-cam)

One-Hour Pilots

Miniseries

Limited Series

TV Homes

Cable

Premium Cable

Streaming

TV Genres

Drama

Comedy

RomCom

Sci-Fi

Action

Adventure

Thriller

Horror

Sub-Genres

Animation (adult)

Animation (family-friendly)

Book Adaptation

Coming-of-Age

Crime/True Crime

Dark Comedy

Documentary Adaptation

Dystopian

Female-Driven

Futuristic

Ghosts

Graphic Novel Adaptation

High-Concept

Irreverent

Latinx

LGBTQIA+

Mystery

Psychological

Revenge

Road Trip

Romance

Satire

Serialized TV

Socially Relevant

Supernatural

Suspense

True Story

Workplace

Young Adult (YA)

Specifically Not Interested In

Not as interested in high octane fantasy and period pieces.

More about Melinda Li

Born in Singapore and raised in suburban Connecticut, Melinda knew from a young age that she wanted to change the world with cinema and storytelling. At Harvard College, she studied psychology and economics, and took on development internships at Plan B and Anonymous Content. After graduating in 2019, she moved to LA where she landed a desk at Warner Bros. TV in Drama Development.

Melinda switched to the producing side of things, as the TV Creative Executive at Viola Davis' JuVee Productions, where she worked on development of shows such as an adaptation of Octavia Butler's WILD SEED, an epic Asian fantasy with Gemma Chan attached as EP, an HBO series set in the world of the Black Elite, and an Amazon drama series about Bruce's Beach with Plan B co-producing. In 2022, Melinda became the Director of Development at TM Instruments, a film & tv production company with a first-look deal at Anonymous Contents, and projects set up at Apple TV, Paramount TV, Tyler Perry Studios, and Universal Studios (specifically a reboot of Van Helsing in the Universal Monsterverse).

This past year Melinda pointed staffing of an Apple series writers room . Melinda seeks to elevate and champion the voices of women, people of color, and those in the LGBTQ+ community.