
Paige Elizabeth Gresty is a writer/director from Washington, DC by way of London, England. Raised in a single parent household, she is drawn to depicting women at the intersections of class, sexuality, and trauma. After receiving her MFA in Film Directing from UCLA, she worked on the Vice feature, Chyna; the PBS series And She Could be Next; the Oscar-nominated short Walk Run Cha Cha; and many others. Her directorial debut, A Place I’d Like to Be, premiered at Maryland Film Festival; a follow-up, Free Fall, premiered at Cinequest. As a screenwriter, her work has featured in many prestigious competitions, including the Academy Awards’ Nicholl Fellowships. She worked for Sundance, the BBC, Frontline Club, and Underwire Film Festival. Previously, she was a video artist and poet, with The Guardian praising “the complexity of her work… [which] presents a life gently being pulled apart by technology and disappearing down the optic fibres of fate.”
