Olivia Newman

About

Olivia Newman is an award-winning writer/director whose films have screened at festivals internationally, including the New York Film Festival, Aspen Shortsfest, and the Vancouver International Film Festival, among others. A 2015 participant in the Sundance Directors Lab and the Sundance  Screenwriters Lab, she is currently in development on her first narrative feature, First Match. The script for First Match was a quarter finalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and one of seven winning scripts for the 2015 Columbia University Blue List competition. Olivia is also the recipient of the 2015 Durga Entertainment Filmmaker Grant and the Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship, and is an alum of IFP’s No Borders International Co-Production Forum, IFP/Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Emerging Visions program, Film Independent's Fast Track market, and the Cine Qua Non Screenwriters Lab. Her films have received support from the Sundance Institute, HBO and The Caucus Foundation, and have been broadcast on PBS. Olivia received her MFA in Film from Columbia University.