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Minhal Baig
7 films
Minhal Baig is a writer/director. Her feature-length film, Hala, about a Pakistani-American teenager uncovering a secret that threatens to unravel her family, premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Apple TV.
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She has an overall writing-producing deal in television with Amazon, is a 2022 Sundance Momentum Fellow and participated in the 2022 WGA Showrunner Training Program. She was previously a story editor on Bojack Horseman (Netflix) and staff writer on Ramy (Hulu). In 2017, she was selected as Directing Mentorship Fellow for Ryan Murphy's HALF Foundation and named a Screenwriter to Watch by Austin Film Festival.
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First watchHala20196.3Seventeen-year-old Pakistani American teenager Hala struggles to balance desire with her family, cultural, and religious obligations.View filmEssential films
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7 films- TBAWe SpreadWriter
- 2024We Grown NowScreenplay
- 2019HalaWriter
- 2017PretextWriter
- 2017After SophieWriter
- 20161 NightWriter
- 2016HalaWriter