Meet Ron Melmon.
Q: Tell us what you do in Sedona.
A: I’m a filmmaker here in Sedona. When I’m not making films, I’m processing my photography skills. I have a company called Sedona Media Services, and we do live-streaming events here for people in Sedona. Especially with Covid happening two years ago, there was a real need for that because so many events stopped happening. My true love is documentary filmmaking. I’ve been a producer all of my life. A producer surrounds themselves with great people that love to do what they love to do. I’ve been helping people find what they love and then work together as a team to manifest their dream. I love team effort, we can’t be on the planet without each other…that’s really my message in life. It is so important that we all work together doing what each of us do best.
Q: How long have you lived in Sedona?
A: I have lived in the Verde Valley for 25 years. The first five years were in Camp Verde, then Sedona for the last 20, so 25 years total.
Q: Who’s the most interesting person you’ve met while you’ve been in Sedona?
A: I think Mark DuCharme is the most interesting guy I’ve met. Mark is a little younger than me and he runs a company called DuCharme Prints and Frames. He’s a very skilled, interesting, and a wonderful man. I enjoy the way he works on his craft.
Q: What one piece of advice changed your life?
A: Winston Churchill, ‘Never give up, never give up, never give up’ because it’s my personality.
Q: What film would you watch over and over again?
A: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick in 1968. When it came out I was very young. That scene where the bone spins around and then it turns into this incredible spaceship, I yelled out loud in the theater. It does me well to remember that scene. I’m getting chills thinking of it.
Q: What song never gets old?
A: I’m a musician, there’s a ton of them. I think I like the old standards because the lyrics are so strong, astounding, and meaningful. Never Let Me Go, The Girl from Ipanema, Fly Me to the Moon and Tenderly, come to mind as favorites. What I like about the songs besides the lyrics is the way the notes intertwine themselves. They all are so unique and so beautiful and I’m so lucky to be able to express my emotions in my fingertips. When I play piano, I weep because of the beauty of it. It’s so beautiful which goes back to never, never give up, which goes back to the joy of being here, which goes back to my thanking somebody for making the piano… it’s an ongoing thing.
Q: How would your best friend describe you?
A: Optimistic, outgoing, loving, trustworthy, exceptionally loyal and good looking!
Q: If you could choose one person dead or alive to have lunch with who would that be?
A: I think Einstein would be a person I would enjoy talking with. Even though he founded the theory of relativity, he was grounded in consciousness and awareness. He had this incredible other side to him, he was a real person at the same time. It would be a delight to know how he came up with the theory of relativity at the age of 26.
Q: What are three words when you think of home.
A: Safety, love, and happiness.
