Parker Fenady is a filmmaker and honors graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts whose work explores girlhood, queer identity, and the beautiful, messy contradictions of growing up through intimate, character-driven stories. Her directorial debut, I Didn’t Like You, premiered as the Opening Centerpiece at NFFTY 2025, earned a Jury Award nomination, and was featured by Antigravity Academy, Cinegogue, and CAPE. The film also screened at the American Cinematheque PROOF Festival, where it was pitched as a series, and is slated for online release with Film Shortage in early 2026.
She has worked in feature and television development at Heyday Films, produced multiple Oscar-qualifying shorts, and currently serves as an Associate Producer on a half-hour comedy series. A SAG-AFTRA actor, her feature acting debut was released by Lionsgate in 2024 and she has contributed voice work to several Sundance features films. Alongside the pilot, 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. To those 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 want 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.
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