Rebecca Fay O'Neill

BIOGRAPHIE

Rebecca O’Neill is an American writer-director based in New York. She holds a BA in History and Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she graduated cum laude and won the Linda Peterson Award for excellence in undergraduate research. In 2016, Rebecca joined the Columbia University MFA in Film Directing. Winner of the Phil Johnston Comedy Grant in 2020, her thesis short SPARKS LAMPINI portrays a brief moment of levity and revenge within a larger cycle of intimate partner violence. Currently, Rebecca is developing a feature that shares the short film’s namesake. In addition to SPARKS LAMPINI, Rebecca is co-writing a feature about inherited trauma and radical christianity within a rural, Korean-American community. Rebecca was born in Walnut Creek, California to a first generation Filipina-American mother and an American father.

FILMOGRAPHIE