Jennifer Phang

Phang is a graduate of the M.F.A. Directing Program at the American Film Institute, where she received the Holleigh Bernson Memorial Award and the Dreamworks World Studio Foundation Scholarship. Her thesis film Love Ltd., a suburban dramedy, was screened at over thirty international film festivals and is co-distributed by Hypnotic, NAATA, and Frameline. As an Honoree for Film Independent's Project: Involve, Phang worked under the mentorship of acclaimed director Tony Bui (Three Seasons). She was awarded the Talent Scout Writing Contest's First Prize for co-writing the original one-hour pilot Simi Valley. Half-Life was developed at the Film Independent Directors' Lab under Rodrigo Garcia (Tell Me You Love Me). Phang was recently nominated for the Rockefeller Foundation's Film and Video Fellowship and was a finalist for the IFP/NY Adrienne Shelly Grant.