Carly Usdin

Carly Usdin (they/them) is an award-winning commercial and narrative filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Their first feature, SUICIDE KALE, won the Audience Award at Outfest and Newfest; their short film MISDIRECTION was an official selection of over 60 festivals worldwide. Their most recent short film, FIRST DATE for Hello Sunshine garnered over 100k YouTube views in two months. Carly has spent years making short-form narrative and branded content for clients like Funny or Die, CollegeHumor, Viacom and YouTube. Most notably, they directed the third season of Awkwafina's digital series TAWK and several promotional campaigns for RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE. In 2019 they directed four episodes of the interactive comedy series WIZARD SCHOOL DROPOUT for Eko. Carly was named to the 2019 cohort of Universal's Directors Initiative and the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women, class of 2019. Carly is also the creator and writer of two comic book series for BOOM! Studios: 2018 Prism award nominee HEAVY VINYL and 2020 GLAAD Award nominee THE AVANT-GUARDS.