Oriana is a French-Singaporean filmmaker. She received her MFA in Filmmaking from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2024. She has wanted to be a writer-director since the age of 14, after discovering Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro’s movies.
Prior to NYU, Oriana studied management with a focus on film business at HEC Paris. She worked in development, talent management, sales and international coproductions in Europe and L.A. before transitioning behind the camera.
Her passion for theater and working with actors heavily influences her filmmaking. She has studied acting part time in several drama schools, notably the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, in order to understand the actor’s process. She enjoys casting and occasionally produces.
Her short film EXIT received accolades from many festivals internationally, notably the Dallas International Film Festival, the Brisbane International Film Festival, and Barbados Independent Film Festival, where it won Best Drama Short.