Minhal Baig

Writing·Chicago, Illinois, USA

Rate

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.

Film	Credit
We Grown Now2024 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
Hala2019 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
TThe Last Days of TJ Staggs2018 · Self	Self
Pretext2017 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
After Sophie2017 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
1 Night2016 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
HHala2016 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
We SpreadDirector, Writer	Director, Writer