Bio

Miida Chu is a writer-director-theorist of trans experience in parallel universes. Her work often uses imaginative thought experiments to challenge assumptions about body and soul. Her short film EUREKA won the Golden Reel Award at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, qualifying the film for consideration for the Academy Awards. Miida was a fellow with the Disruptors TV Writing Program, Almanack Screenwriting Residency, and Mentorship Matters. She was a finalist for the Shondaland/SeriesFest Women Directing Mentorship and the Warner Brothers 100 Short Film Initiative. Her TV pilot SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS was a finalist for the ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition. Her feature script SOUND OF MY DREAMS was a semifinalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowships. Her film theory, STORYTELLING AS GAME DESIGN AND PLAYER DESIGN, was selected as a long paper presentation at the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) Conference. Miida earned a BA with high honors in philosophy from New York University and an MFA in directing from the American Film Institute. She was accepted to UCLA’s PhD program in philosophy, but she's glad she didn’t fall into that parallel universe.