This is Drew.

A Sundance Lab Fellow and Grantee, Drew Denny is passionate about representing women and LGBTQ+ characters through narrative filmmaking, investigative documentary, performance, and commercials. TLDR: Hire Drew if you want to make something excellent with an inclusive, trauma informed crew and without wasting any precious time or budget.

PRESENT:

Drew’s 2024 feature documentary Survivor Made, following survivors of gender based violence who help each other escape their harm doers, is screening nationwide. Executive Produced by Padma Lakshmi, Nava Mau, and Roxane Gay and featuring songs by FKA Twigs, this film is made by a fabulous team of survivors you should hire for your next film.

FUTURE:

Drew’s forthcoming feature documentary Second Nature, narrated by Elliot Page, proves that queerness abounds in the nature and that females often lead the pack. A recipient of the Frameline Completion Grant and the Sundance Documentary Fund Grant, Second Nature will be touring in 2025.

Stay tuned for Drew’s comedy pilot Wander Women about two girls who escape a doomsday cult, a mockumentary about the “evils” of drag queen nuns, and a musical rom com with writer/producer Jaclyn Moore which just received the Second Rounder honor at the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition in 2024.

PAST:

Harper’s Bazaar called Drew’s one woman show turned Academy Award nominated podcast Asking For It “a Fleabag fix in a post-Fleabag world,” and Marta Kaufman’s shingle OK Goodnight is producing a narrative television series based on her documentary Queer Habits—following drag queen nuns who save a rural homophobic community from ruin.

Her first feature The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On won Best Feature, Best First Feature and Best Cinematography in its 50-festival run, earning her a spot in The Advocate’s “40 Under 40” list, where she was named “an auteur to watch.”

Her action comedy film Momster, starring Amanda Plummer and Brianna Hildebrand, premiered in Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival where it was selected for their debut Pride program and called “Tarantino and Nicolas Refn’s queer feminist love child.”

In over a dozen documentaries, she has secured unprecedented access to subjects as diverse as drag queen nuns in California, abortion clinics in Texas, climate change refugees in the Maldives, NASA scientists in Greenland and sex changing fish in the Pacific Ocean.

Her recent narrative and commercial work features Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction), Josh Fadem (Twin Peaks, 30 Rock), John Ennis (Mr Show), Gabourey Sidibe (Empire), Chloe Moretz (Carrie), Larry Pine (House Of Cards), Catherine Curtin (Stranger Things) and Michelle Hurst (Orange Is The New Black), Frank Harts (Rustin), Bridget Moynahan (Sex and the City), Kelsea Ballerini, Flume, Blink 182, Sheila E, Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas, supermodels Christie Brinkley, Ashley Graham, Iman and Lana Ogilvie, and influencers like DeStorm Power, Sam Swank, and more. Her clients include A&E, CNN, CBS, Vice, Spotify, and Interscope Records in addition to partnerships with Häagen-Dazs, Pop Mart, Gia Coppola Wine, Effen Vodka, and Sony Motion Pictures Entertainment on behalf of her non-profit Allies in Arts.

She earned a BFA in Cinema and Television Production from the University of Southern California and an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from California Institute of the Arts. She moonlights in a band called HIPS.

Whether working with a major network, a global brand or an independent passion project, Drew takes pride in directing projects that are entertaining, cathartic and that authentically represent stories and characters who’ve rarely been seen on stage or screen.

 

Allies in Arts

Denny’s passion to bring marginalized voices to the forefront inspired her to found the non-profit organization Allies in Arts which supports artists of all mediums who are women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ through screenings, exhibitions, public art interventions and paid educational opportunities.

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