Minhal Baig is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Film at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Her latest feature, We Grown Now, about two boys growing up in a Cabrini-Green high rise when a tragedy irrevocably changes their lives, premiered in Centerpiece at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, was awarded the TIFF Changemaker Award and Audience Award at Chicago International Film Festival and received Best Picture, Best Cinematography and Best Editing nominations for the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards as well as NAACP Image Award nominations for Outstanding Independent Motion Picture and Outstanding Youth Performance. Released by Sony Pictures Classics.

Her previous feature, Hala, about a Pakistani-American Muslim teenager uncovering a secret about her family, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Apple.

She had a two-year overall writing-producing deal in television with Amazon, is a 2022 Sundance Momentum Fellow, participated in the 2022 WGA Showrunner Training Program and in 2017 was chosen for Ryan Murphy’s Half Initiative. She has served as co-executive producer on Criminal (Amazon), story editor on Bojack Horseman (Netflix) and staff writer on Peabody-award winning half-hour comedy Ramy (Hulu).

Her work has also been supported by fellowships and residencies at Yaddo and The Black List. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Writer’s Guild of America and the Director’s Guild of America.

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