Minhal Baig

Filmmaker

"Minhal Baig is a filmmaker. 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 at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and awarded the TIFF Changemaker Award.

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 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 and staff writer on Peabody-award winning half-hour comedy Ramy.

In 2017, she was chosen as Directing Mentorship Fellow for Ryan Murphy's HALF Foundation and Screenwriter to Watch by Austin Film Festival. She also served as film & media studies lecturer at Yale University and co-founded ISF’s Muslim Screenwriter’s Lab with The Black List and Extracurricular. "