Fatima Hye is a Bangladeshi-American Muslim woman who grew up in Houston, Texas. She earned certifications in Quranic Recitation and Classical Arabic while in Jordan. She got her BA and MA from the University of Houston, majoring in Philosophy, minoring in Psychology and Media Production. She teaches Philosophy, Humanities, and Film at San Jacinto, Houston, and Alvin Community colleges. She has completed several shorts and took her featurette “Animalium” to the Victoria, TX Independent Film Festival (currently available on Tubi). She has been a panelist/presenter at UH, HAAPI (Houston Asian-American Pacific Islander) Fest, and the Lost River Film Festival in San Marcos. She was a screener for Cinespace (through NASA and the Houston Cinema Arts Society) and a Programmer for the Ashland Independent Film Festival. Her screenplay “Adoratum Technica” was a Finalist in the WIFT-H (Women in Film and Television-Houston) and SWAMP (Southwest Alternative Media Project) Short Script Competition and Table Read. Her first feature, “Abortifacient”, a psychological art horror “operatic cinema” was picked up for distribution by Summer Hill Entertainment through The Movie Agency and is set to be re-released in March 2023. In the pandemic years, she completed 3 “Covid Projects”: the 1st, “Count the Ways”, which went on to premier at Lost River; the 2nd, “The Players”, a local cooperative project now streaming; and the 3rd, “Cryptic Triptych”, for which she received a Feature Film Production Grant from the Austin Film Society, and is being prepared for distribution. She recently wrapped shooting on the psychological body horror feature “Ana & Mia”, for which she received a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.