Writer/Director, ¡Ay Bendito! 

Rebecca Iliana Kahn is a Chicago-born Puerto Rican Jewish writer and director. She is a Sundance Institute Screenwriting fellow and was featured on the Black List’s 2024 Latine List in partnership with the Latin Tracking Board and NALIP highlighting the very best in Latin storytelling in film, television, and theater. Her short films have screened at Academy qualifying festivals from the Palm Springs International ShortFest to the Fantasia International Film Festival. Rebecca received her MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she was awarded grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press.