Mira Peng is a writer and filmmaker from Hunan, China. She began her filmmaking journey in Beijing and is now based in Los Angeles. Her short films have screened at festivals including NewFest, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, and Asian American International Film Festival.
A graduate of New York University’s MFA program in Filmmaking, Peng was selected for Disney Launchpad, where she wrote and directed The Little Prince(ss). She is also an Almanack Screenwriters Fellow, an Academy Nicholl Fellowships semi-finalist, and a Lambda Literary Fellow. Her feature screenplay Lychee Girl was selected for NYU’s Purple List in 2026.
