Jennie Allen

Associate Director, MFA in Film 

Jennie Allen is a screenwriter whose work includes the microbudget feature Failing Better Now and the upcoming film 111, written with director Mauro Mueller. Produced by C-Films with Auguste Content and Fidelio Films, 111 is slated for distribution by SquareOne and Elevation Pictures.

Her films have been recognized by the Adrienne Shelly Foundation and supported through artist grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Greene County Council on the Arts. Her short films have screened and won awards at festivals worldwide and have been distributed by Shorts International.Allen earned her MFA in Film from Columbia University, where she received the Lewis Cole Award for Excellence in Screenwriting. Her work ranges from drama to dark comedy and often dives into death, dying, loss, addiction, colonialism, the resilience (and destruction) of the natural world, and other lighthearted aspects of modern life. She is currently working on the psychological horror film Naturalized.