Naomi Iwamoto is a Japanese American writer-director. In television, she’s written for Hulu’s half-hour dramedy Tiny Beautiful Things, Lena Waithe’s Twenties, CBS’s Happy Together, NBC’s Connecting and an upcoming Marvel series. She is an alumni of the HALF Director Shadowing Program and is a 23-24’ AFI DWW+ fellow where she directed her latest short, Sixteen. Her previous short, Lost & Found, toured internationally ending its run at Paramount Studios’ Women Behind the Lens showcase. Her work explores full, complicated and honest renderings of women and Asian Americans on screen, dealing with the bits that are too uncomfortably honest with humor.