Parker Fenady is a filmmaker and honors graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Her directorial debut, I Didn’t Like You, premiered as the Opening Centerpiece at NFFTY 2025, where it was named a Programmer’s Pick and received a Jury Award nomination. The film went on to screen at the American Cinematheque’s PROOF Festival, where it was pitched as a series, and has since been featured by Antigravity Academy, Cinegogue, and CAPE, and selected for Tasting Menu, a curated indie pilot platform. It premiered online with Film Shortage in 2026 and screened at Brain Dead Studios in May as part of 50/50 Comedy.
Fenady began her career in feature and television development at Heyday Films (Marriage Story, Barbie, Paddington, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) and has since produced several Oscar-qualifying short films. She currently serves as an Associate Producer on a half-hour comedy series for Paramount+. A SAG-AFTRA actor, she made her feature acting debut in a 2024 Lionsgate release and has contributed voice work to Sundance-featured films including Lurker, Dìdi, and Little Death. Alongside a completed pilot adaptation of I Didn’t Like You, she is developing her first feature and completing a trilogy of companion shorts, continuing to explore complex desire, identity, and the ways young women come of age through one another.
Fenady began her career in feature and television development at Heyday Films (Marriage Story, Barbie, Paddington, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) and has since produced several Oscar-qualifying short films. She currently serves as an Associate Producer on a half-hour comedy series for Paramount+. A SAG-AFTRA actor, she made her feature acting debut in a 2024 Lionsgate release and has contributed voice work to Sundance-featured films including Lurker, Dìdi, and Little Death. Alongside a completed pilot adaptation of I Didn’t Like You, she is developing her first feature and completing a trilogy of companion shorts, continuing to explore complex desire, identity, 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.
If this film was a sentence:
