Sarah U'ilani Whalen

Festival de Cannes nominated filmmaker, Sarah U’ilani Whalen, has written and directed thirty projects with nominations at Long Beach Horror Festival, Monarch Festival, etc. Currently enrolled at The New York Film Academy, she will graduate in August 2023 with a Bachelor’s in Filmmaking. She crewed on over twenty projects (music videos, short films, commercials) as 1st AD, script supervisor, camera operator, and production designer with budgets ranging from $1K-$25K. Her most recent project “First Comes Love” is a coming-of-age romance between two teenage girls struggling with grief, identity, and first love set in 1970s Northern California suburbia.