Melanie Akoka
Alum Melanie Akoka joined forces with the rock band Arcade Fire as the cinematographer on their latest release “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)”.
The music video, which was released on May 9th of this year, is part of Arcade Fire’s newest studio album We and has already been watched by over one million people.
All the band's studio albums have received nominations for Best Alternative Music Album at the Grammys, and The Suburbs won Arcade Fire their first career Grammy win for Album Of The Year for 2010. Their 2004 studio album Funeral is widely considered by music critics to be one of the greatest albums of the 2000s. The band's work has also been named three times as a shortlist nominee for the Polaris Music Prize: in 2007 for Neon Bible, in 2011 for The Suburbs and in 2014 for Reflektor.