Minhal Baig is a writer/director recently featured on the 2016 Black List for her feature-length script HALA, based on her eponymous short about a Muslim teenager reconciling a sexual awakening with faith and family. Overbrook is attached to produce the film. In 2017, she was chosen as a mentee for Ryan Murphy's Half Foundation Directing Mentorship Program.With a degree from Yale University in Fine Arts, she has an acute and thoughtful eye for detail and textural beauty that translates into her work. She has also written and directed several shorts including Pretext, After Sophie and Hala, as well as music videos, which have been featured by Nowness, Dazed, Nylon, Short of the Week, Director's Notes, Booooooom!, Vimeo Staff Pick and Hammer Museum in LA.