Director

Minhal Baig

Writing

Career Snapshot

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Directed credits

Emerging

Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

2.4

Moderate attention

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 8

TMDB ID: 1617376

IMDb ID: nm6850073

Known for: Writing

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2014 - 2024

Years active: 11

Average TMDB rating: 6.98

Wikidata: Q72219432

Also known as

민할 베이그

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Biography

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.