"Linda & Luis" is the first student film Melissa wrote, directed, produced, edited and starred in, a multi-genre story consisting of rom-com, crime, drama and mystery for Brooklyn College's Film Director's Workshop class in 2022. 

She began to develop pre-production knowledge such as the casting process, table reads and rehearsals, lookbooks, shotlists, floor plans, call sheets, shooting schedules, location scouting, budgeting, and wardrobe & prop experience, production knowledge of collaborating with a crew on set, and postproduction knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro  during this experience, which was the first film Melissa ever worked on.