about.

Marjan Mona Koffa is a Liberian-American filmmaker with an MFA in Film and Television from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She received her bachelor's in Media Studies and a Minor in Philosophy. Marjan has experience in the film industry, from development to distribution, encompassing narrative and non-fiction spaces.

Marjan recently wrote and directed Fufu and Soup. The short film is based on her pilot script that was a semi-finalist in the 2023 Black Boy/Black Girl Write Mentorship Initiative, ScreenCraft's Screenwriting Fellowship, and Stage 32's Drama TV Drama Screenwriting Contest. Her directorial debut, "Mind Over Fatter," premiered at the 2023 LA Shorts International Film Festival. The script was a finalist for NALIP's Narrative Short Film Incubator. Her feature script, My Darling Girl, has been selected for the second round of consideration for the 2024 Sundance Development Track. Aspire TV acquired her short drama, "In the Name of Love," for their Urban Indie Programming. Most recently, Marjan was a directing finalist for Color Creative's Find Your People Program.

Before moving to Los Angeles, Marjan worked as a production assistant at National Geographic, managing deliverables and assisting on television specials. She interned at Meridian Hill Pictures, a documentary production company, working on distribution for their first feature-length film, City of Trees.

As a storyteller, she leverages the intersections of her social identity to marry provocative thought with entertainment that invokes theoretical discourse in all her artistic endeavors. Marjan crafts genre-blending stories about marginalized womxn confronting their place in society, weaving together both tangible and offbeat narratives.