
Minhal Baig
Writing
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

Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?
BoJack Horseman

Ramy, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is on a spiritually conflicting journey in his New Jersey neighborhood, pulled between his Muslim community that thinks life is a constant test, his millennial friends who think life is full of endless possibilities, and a God who's always watching.
Ramy

Seventeen-year-old Pakistani American teenager Hala struggles to balance desire with her family, cultural, and religious obligations. As she comes into her own, she grapples with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
Hala

In 1992 Chicago, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond is challenged when tragedy shakes their community just as they are learning to fly.
We Grown Now

Thirty-something Elizabeth must decide whether to salvage her disappointing relationship with Drew. Meanwhile, Bea, a worrisome teenager, reconnects with her introverted childhood friend, Andy, at their high school prom. Past and present collide as two couples explore love over the course of one night at a hotel.
1 Night
A six minute-42 second second short, The Last Days of TJ Staggs features Paul Scheer as an agent who pulls a Rip Van Winkle in 1998, wakes up 20 years later, and realizes how the town has changed.
The Last Days of TJ Staggs
A Muslim American teenager struggles to reconcile desire with family obligations.
Hala

A documentary filmmaker investigates the troubling, unexpected suicide of a teenager.
After Sophie

Follows an aging artist who, after the death of her partner, is moved into a unique long-term care residence where she begins to distrust her day-to-day reality
We Spread

A young woman confronts her sexual assailant.