Biography

Mira Peng is a writer, poet and filmmaker from Hunan, China. She started filmmaking in Beijing and is now based in New York City and Los Angeles. Her shorts have been selected by NewFest, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Sydney International Film Festival, Asian American International Film Festival, Queer East, and more. A graduate of New York University’s Graduate Film Program, Peng was selected for the Disney Filmmaker Launchpad, where she wrote and directed The Little Prince(ss), which was released on Disney+. Peng is also an Almanack Screenwriters fellow, a Lambda Literary Fellow, and a Tin House Fiction Workshop fellow.