Olivia Newman

Birth : , Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.

History

Writer/director, Olivia Newman is an alum of the Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Labs and the Sundance FilmTwo Intensive, the recipient of the IFP/Durga Foundation Filmmaker Award, the Adrienne Shelly Foundation filmmaker grant and the Maryland Filmmakers fellowship.

Profile

Movies

Where the Crawdads Sing

Director

Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the prime suspect for his murder.

First Match

Director

Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.

First Match

Writer

Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.

First Match

Director

No amount of practice on the mat can prepare Mo for the challenge she faces at her first high school wrestling match.