Parker Fenady is a filmmaker and honors graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Her directorial debut, I Didn’t Like You, has been featured by Antigravity Academy, Cinegogue, and CAPE, and premiered as the Opening Centerpiece at NFFTY 2025, where it earned a Jury Award nomination and was selected as a Programmer’s Pick by Program Director, Amy Williams. The film went on to screen at the American Cinematheque's PROOF Festival, where it was pitched as a series, and is slated for online release with Film Shortage in early 2026.
Fenady has worked in feature and television development at Heyday Films (Marriage Story, Barbie, Paddington, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) and has produced multiple Oscar-qualifying short films. She currently serves as an Associate Producer on a half-hour comedy series. A SAG-AFTRA actor, she made her feature acting debut in a Lionsgate release in 2024 and has contributed voice work to several Sundance films. She is currently developing her first feature and a trilogy of companion shorts, continuing to explore raw vulnerability, complex desire, and the ways young women come of age through one another.
Director’s statement:
In many ways, this film is an homage to girls who pine. About taking a risk for the first time. There’s a sense of self-reverence that comes from knowing what you want and knowing that desire belongs to you. It’s a love letter to that first reckless step toward who you are, when everything still feels fragile and trembling. Someone once said to me, ‘I am all three of these girls. They are my sun, moon, and rising.’ There’s not much more I could ask for than that.
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