Parker Fenady is a filmmaker and honors graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Her work explores girlhood, queer identity, and the contradictions of growing up through intimate, character-driven stories. Her debut short, I Didn’t Like You, premiered as Opening Centerpiece at NFFTY 2025, earned a Jury Award nomination, and was featured by Antigravity Academy, Cinegogue, and CAPE. This November, her short will screen at the American Cinematheque Proof of Concept Festival, where it will be pitched as a series. She has worked in feature and TV development at Heyday Films, produced multiple Oscar-qualifying shorts, and currently works as a TV production coordinator on a comedy series. A SAG-AFTRA actor, her feature debut was released by Lionsgate.
Director’s statement:
In many ways, this film is an homage to girls who pine — ones who ache for something before they can even put it into words. 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. I wanted the film to feel like a memory just out of reach: tender, electric, and just a little bit dangerous. 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.
