Manya Glassman received her MFA in Film Directing from NYU Tisch School of Arts. She uses visual imagery to explore what makes us human and subjects around love, family, and mortality. At NYU she produced over 11 short films, directed/wrote 6 of her own, and produced a feature with a distribution deal with a prominent French company. Manya served as Spike Lee’s Teaching Assistant for 2 years and assisted him on a Netflix special. She has been the recipient of awards, such as the Spike Lee / Sandra Ifraimova Film Production Grant, a Willard T.C. Johnson Fellowship, a Rolly Bester Scholarship, and Antonio Cirino Memorial Scholarship from the Rhode Island Foundation. Spike Lee recently signed on as Executive Producer for Manya’s upcoming film, How I Learned to Die.