Minhal Baig

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Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gender: Female

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.

Credits

Year Title
We Spread
2024-04-19 We Grown Now
2019-11-22 Hala
2017-06-16 Pretext
2017-03-07 After Sophie
2016-10-14 1 Night
2016-04-12 Hala