Parida Tanti is a Thai-American writer-director who works between Los Angeles and Bangkok. Her film "Young People, Old People & Nothing in Between" won Best Live-Action Short Film at the Academy-Award qualifying deadCenter Film Festival, Best Performance at the Canadian Screen Award qualifying Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, and Best Student Short at the Porto Femme International Film Festival. The film is nominated for the YUGO BAFTA Student Awards, the Heart-On Award at Busan International Children & Youth Film Festival, and is an official selection of the Academy-Award qualifying Short Shorts & Asia Film Festival, the Asian American International Film Festival, and the Nickel Independent Film Festival, among others. Parida’s first film,“Red Ladies or Help My Mom is a Republican!” won Best Political Comedy at The Women’s Comedy Film Festival in Atlanta, was nominated for Best of Awards 2021 NewFilmmakersLA, Best Short at the San Diego Asian-American Film Festival, and was one in five shorts to be highlighted at the Academy-Award qualifying Los Angeles Pacific Asian Film Festival. Before becoming a filmmaker, Parida worked as a game writer in Bangkok. She is the recipient of The Adrienne Shelly Foundation Award, the U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, the Carl David Memorial Fellowship in Film, the Mind the Gap Award for Excellence in Filmmaking, and is the two-time recipient of the Herman Kass Prize. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from UCLA and a BA in Poetry from Columbia University.