About

Kana Felix is a Filipina-American writer, director, and story facilitator. She was born in New York City, and was raised internationally as a Third Culture Kid living in places like Nepal, Kenya, Morocco, Colombia, and Italy! 

Kana has 6+ years of experience as a script reader for top competitions and studios such as The Academy Nicholl, Paramount+, Blacklist x Women in Film, Penguin Random House, Final Draft Big Break, Alcon Entertainment, and Sugar23. She also works 1:1 with writers and has clients who are Emmy-nominated TV writers, staffed on A Black Lady Sketch Show, Emmy-nominated casting directors, and Nickelodeon directors.

She’s an alumna of NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she studied Theorizing Comedy. After, she attended The Second City Film School.

Kana writes about humans having funny existential breakdowns, because she is one of them.

Her student short, Tabatha Jane Maxx, has screened as an official selection at Austin Spotlight, Detroit Shetown, and Portland Comedy Film Fests. Her original horror-comedy pilot, Final Cut, was a Sundance Episodic Lab 2nd rounder and a ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition quarterfinalist in 2021.

She was selected for the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium, where she had intimate seminars with renowned directors like Werner Hertzog, Ken Burns, and Hirokazu Kore-eda. She’s been mentored by an FX Executive and Golden Globe nominated comedy writer/director.