Minhal Baig
Writing
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.
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.
Known for
Behind the camera7
- 2024We Grown Now Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2019Hala Director, Writer, Producer
- 2017Pretext Writer, Director
- 2017After Sophie Writer, Director
- 20161 Night Writer, Director
- 2016Hala Writer, Director
- TBAWe Spread Director, Writer
Acting1
- 2018The Last Days of TJ Staggs as Self