About the Director

Sontenish Myers is a Caribbean-American writer-director based in Harlem, NY and a thesis student at NYU’s Grad Film program. Sontenish has written and directed 4 short films to date. In her work, racial identity, womanhood, power dynamics, and the heroic journey are often explored. She is particularly interested in doing so across genres, from dramas, science fiction/fantasy, to dark comedies.

Sontenish was named a 2017 “30 Under 30 Caribbean American Emerging Leader” by the Institute of Caribbean Studies, as well as selected by NYU as a 2017 Martin Scorsese Scholarship recipient.