Biography

Winter Dunn is an award-winning director, producer and actress with a passion for depicting universal stories through the lens of BIPOC voices. Her short film DEAR MAMA... World Premiered at SXSW 2022 and was awarded a Special Jury Mention in Drama at Aspen Shortsfest. DEAR MAMA... is featured in The New Yorker and Short of the Week. Her debut short film JUNEBUG premiered at American Black Film Festival, made its television debut on FOX Soul, and is currently streaming on Tubi and Issa Rae Presents/HOORAE. She produced Numa Perrier's debut feature film, JEZEBEL, which premiered at SXSW 2019, won Best Narrative Feature at the American Black Film Festival, and is currently streaming on Netflix via Ava DuVernay's ARRAY.

Dunn has directed multiple digital content formats, including web series and editorial videos. Her celebrity video features for Vanity Fair, Vogue, Architectural Digest, GQ, Allure, and other media brands have garnered a celebrity feature list that includes Lena Waithe, Kim Kardashian, Billie Eilish, and others.

She is a 2022 Ryan Murphy HALF Initiative Directing Fellow and a Shondaland Women's Directing Workshop finalist. She is a 2021 Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow and is the recipient of the Amazon Studios Film Fellowship. Dunn graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from Fordham University.
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