Randi Barros is a screenwriter, director, and film editor. Her screenplay, THE CHICKEN FESTIVAL, is a Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist and is in development. In addition to Nicholl, Randi’s screenplays have been honored by the Writers Lab, CineStory, The Grey List, Final Draft Big Break, Athena, the Austin Film Festival, and more. She recently wrote and directed the short film, YES, which will premiere on July 25 at the AFI Marc Goodson Screening Room. The screenplay for the film was a semifinalist in the Outstanding Short Screenplays and Shore Scripts competitions.
Randi teaches film and storytelling at Cal Poly University, where she received the Learn by Doing Scholar Award in 2022. She attended the MFA Film Program at Columbia University and finished her MFA in TV and Screenwriting at Stephens College.