Philiane Phang is a ‘recovering lawyer’ who was born in Jamaica where she spent every Saturday watching the only program offered, John Wayne movies. At the imaginative age of 12, she pretended to be a gun-slinging, trash-talking cowboy. Inspired by her love of movies, she wrote her first novel and performed in local productions. Soon thereafter, her family migrated to the United States where she focused on her education. She went on to study business at the University of Florida and law at Rutgers University. Disillusioned with the direction of her life, she moved to New York where she immediately landed a role in an off Broadway play. After several roles, she became dissatisfied with the characters she was being offered and began writing again. She has created both scripted and unscripted shows for new media platform. She wrote and produced her directorial debut, “Serena Strong” which was selected to screen at the 2014 BET/HBO Urban World Film Festival. Her screenplay, he Space Between, was selected to participate in the 2014 Sundance Screenwriters Intensive and Film Independent Screenwriters Lab. Philiane currently resides in New York.