2023-24 Scripted Program Director, Haley Anderson

We’re delighted to share that 2023-24 Scripted Program Director, Haley Anderson, will be directing an episode of season 7 of Showtime/20th’s THE CHI! A filmmaker, writer and visual artist born in Houston, Texas, Haley attended the University of Texas at Austin’s Film and Theatre Programs and graduated from NYU’s Tisch Graduate Film Program as a Dean’s Fellow. Her short film PILLARS premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and won Best Live Action Short and the Grand Jury Prize at AFI. Her follow-up short, SUMMER ANIMALS, premiered at SXSW in 2021 and won Best Texas Short. Haley was named as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and her work has been featured at the Barbican in London, Le Cinema Club, The Criterion Channel, The New Orleans Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Slamdance, Sundance Film Festival, Champs-Élysées Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, and Tribeca Film Festival. Haley’s latest feature, TENDABERRY, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews. Congratulations, Haley!