Faren Humes

Faren Humes (born 1986) is an American filmmaker. She directed the short film Liberty, winning several film festival awards for it, including from the Berlin Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, and SXSW Film Festival. She is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.

Biography Humes was born in 1986 in Miami. She went to the University of Florida and originally studied broadcast journalism, before she instead became interested in film after seeing a student film at a party. She then attended the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts and obtained an MFA in 2011.

Humes' MFA thesis film Our Rhineland, a period drama that touches on Nazi eugenics, won a Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College Television Award and Directors Guild of America Student Film Award. She also worked as a film teacher in Miami, as well as an intern for Jonathan Demme in New York.

In 2020, Humes participated in the 2nd Annual Black Women's Film Conference. In 2021, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a United States Artists Fellowship.

Humes lives in Miami Gardens, Florida.

Documentary Feature Narrative Shorts Award

Gold Hugo for Live Action Short Film Competition