Claire Barnett is a writer-director from Little Rock, Arkansas. Her stories focus on the complicated inner world of women and girls from the American South. Claire’s films have been exhibited in several film festivals nationwide, and her most recent film, SUSAN AND LESLIE, screened at Slamdance Film Festival (2023) and New Orleans Film Festival (2022). Claire received her BFA in Film from the University of Central Arkansas in 2021. She is a recipient of the 2023 New York Women in Film & Television Scholarship and an MFA candidate at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Kanbar Institute of Film & Television Graduate Film.
