About Me

Kana Felix is a Filipina-American writer, director, and script reader. She was born in New York City, and was raised just about everywhere, as a Third Culture Kid—including Nepal, Kenya, Morocco to name a few! 

In 2013 she graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she created her own concentration in Theorizing Comedy, fulfilling her parents dreams of raising a #CrazyBrokeAsian. After, she attended “comedy grad school,” at The Second City Film School. It was there that she crystallized her love of screenwriting, and  discovered her love of directing. 

Kana writes character-driven comedies that showcase complex and funny women-of-color passionately, relentlessly, and naively chasing their dreams because she’s one of them.

Her student short, Tabatha Jane Maxx, has screened as an official selection at Austin Spotlight, Detroit Shetown, and Portland Comedy Film Fests. Her original horror-comedy pilot, Final Cut, was a Sundance Episodic Lab 2nd rounder and a ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition quarterfinalist in 2021.

In August 2018, she was one of 50 participants selected for the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium, where she had intimate seminars with renowned directors like Werner Hertzog, Ken Burns, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra.

When she’s not writing or directing Kana is a script reader for top competitions and studios such as The Academy Nicholl, ViacomCBS Writers Mentoring Program, Final Draft Big Break, Alcon Entertainment, and Sugar23.