Myna Joseph was nominated for a 2016 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for THE MEND. Her short film MAN screened at the Cannes Film Festival in Directors’ Fortnight, as well as Sundance, SXSW, and the New Directors/New Films Festival at Lincoln Center. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and has received a Sundance Annenberg Fellowship, an Audrey & Zygi Wilf Foundation Award, and a Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship. Myna holds degrees from Wellesley College and Columbia University’s MFA film program.