Hannah Ackles

A recent graduate of USC’s Film and Television Production program, Hannah has used storytelling as a way to explore her identity and relationships in her twenties. By focusing on themes of belonging and human connection, she aims to inspire audiences to embrace vulnerability, complicated feelings, and the weird, just as she does with her art.

Whether live-action or animated, funny or sentimental, Hannah is driven to strengthen LGBTQ+ and disability representation in media. Her queer fantasy short SPARKS FLY was a screenwriting finalist at USC.

Hannah is a member of USC’s Women of Cinematic Arts Alumni Writer’s Workshop, and Women in Animation’s Writing for TV Animation mentorship circle. She is a Branded Content Editor at The Film Zone, where she creates video assets from start to finish for Amazon MGM Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and Tubi, among other film companies.

Hannah is writing several pilot samples for television and developing an animated web series.