11/02/2025
Meet another one of our super talented 2025 SFF Competition Judges:
Carlen May-Mann (they/she) is a Brooklyn-based writer and director of bold, humanistic horror and drama films. They have completed two shorts: THE RAT (Sundance, Champs-Elysees Film Festival, Palm Springs ShortFest) and ROMANCE PACKAGE FOR TWO (Palm Springs ShortFest, NewFest, Florida Film Festival). Carlen is a Sundance Feature Films Program fellow two times over, having participated in the Screenwriters Intensive and Women at Sundance Financing and Strategy Intensive with their horror/coming-of-age script STRAWBERRY SUMMER, which also received support from Cinereach. They are currently developing FROM YOUR EYES TO MINE, a ghost story set in her hometown of Laguna Beach, CA. Their work has been featured in Indiewire and more.