
Person
Minhal Baig
Writing · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Known for

BoJack Horseman
Story Editor

Ramy
Writer

We Grown Now
Director

Hala
Director

1 Night
Director

We Spread
Director
The Last Days of TJ Staggs
Self
Hala
Writer

Pretext
Writer

After Sophie
Writer
Filmography
- 2024We Grown NowDirector
- 2019HalaDirector
- 2019RamyWriter
- 2018The Last Days of TJ StaggsSelf
- 2017PretextWriter
- 2017After SophieWriter
- 20161 NightDirector
- 2016HalaWriter
- 2014BoJack HorsemanStory Editor
- —We SpreadDirector
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